diff --git a/README b/README
index ffdb905b9f6c46aff1a549f30396fdf09dc612fe..facf46200d5f8af840db1b7fe5dfceb20cc30386 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ clone [may require Internet access]
 
   The latter is what we'll mostly be using in this course. More specifically:
   
-    git clone git@gizmonic.cs.umd.edu:repo_name
+    git clone git@gitlab.cs.umd.edu:repo_name
 
 init --bare
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@@ -487,11 +487,11 @@ remote
   
     git push other master
 
-  Congratulations! You've just created a fork! We're going to do this
-  frequently. Your VM has a directory ~/tools with a script get-assignment
-  that automates this process. Take a look at this, and see how the commands
-  match with what we've just done manually. Note that there's some magic here
-  that's specific to the gitolite server on gizmonic.cs.umd.edu.
+  Congratulations! You've just created a fork! We're going to do
+  this frequently. Luckily for you, we've mostly automated the
+  forking process, so a script we run will fork our (invisible to
+  you) project repositories into a new project to which you have
+  access.
 
 branch
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