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 documentation
 =============
 
-This is the location for the Yocto Project documentation.  Documentation 
-consists of six manuals (see below).
+This is the directory that contains the Yocto Project documentation.  The Yocto
+Project source repositories at http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi have two 
+instances of the "documentation" directory.  You should understand each of
+these instances.
+
+  poky/documentation - The directory within the poky Git repository containing
+                       the set of Yocto Project manuals.  When you clone the 
+                       poky Git repository, the documentation directory 
+                       contains the manuals.  The state of the manuals in this 
+                       directory is guaranteed to reflect the latest Yocto 
+                       Project release.  The manuals at the tip of this 
+                       directory will also likely contain most manual 
+                       development changes.
+
+  yocto-docs/documentation - The Git repository for the Yocto Project manuals.  
+                             This repository is where manual development 
+                             occurs.  If you plan on contributing back to the 
+                             Yocto Project documentation, you should set up 
+                             a local Git repository based on this upstream 
+                             repository as follows:
+
+                               git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/yocto-docs
+
+                             Changes and patches are first pushed to the 
+                             yocto-docs Git repository.  Later, they make it 
+                             into the poky Git repository found at 
+                             git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.  
 
 Manual Organization
 ===================