From 1b76e29552bbdfcb549261e4c0971e3fbd7cc609 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Friesdorf <flo@chaoflow.net>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 10:43:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README.md: add info about nixpkgs-channels repo

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 README.md | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 86a5568727e..22107050e4f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/NixOS/nixpkgs) [![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/pr)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs) [![Issue Stats](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs/badge/issue)](http://www.issuestats.com/github/nixos/nixpkgs)
 
-Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package
-manager.
+Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the [Nix](https://nixos.org/nix/) package manager. It is periodically build and tested by the [hydra](http://hydra.nixos.org/) build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add [nixpkgs-channels](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git) as a remote `git remote add nixpkgs-channels https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git`. It is recommended to maintain custom changes on top of the `nixos-unstable` branch of `nixpkgs-channels`. For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
 
 [NixOS](https://nixos.org/nixos/) linux distribution source code is located inside `nixos/` folder.