diff --git a/README.mkd b/README.md
similarity index 67%
rename from README.mkd
rename to README.md
index ca7b1c6..cfb8966 100644
--- a/README.mkd
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,51 +24,55 @@ cached repos is needed, it's best done using gitolite, and enabling the
 
 -   best to create a special userid only for this
 
--   put this program in ~/bin in that userid
+-   put this program in $HOME/bin in that userid
+    ```
+    git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/azhai/gitpod
+    mkdir $HOME/bin $HOME/pods
+    cp gitpod/gitpod $HOME/bin/
+    chmod +x $HOME/bin/gitpod
+    ```
 
 -   run this command
-
-        git daemon                              \
-            --access-hook=$HOME/bin/gitpod      \
-            --informative-errors                \
-            --max-connections=1                 \
-            --base-path=$HOME                   \
-            --export-all                        \
-            --reuseaddr                         \
-            --verbose                           \
-            --detach
+    ```
+    git daemon --access-hook=$HOME/bin/gitpod --base-path=$HOME/pods  \
+        --informative-errors --max-connections=2                     \
+        --export-all --reuseaddr --verbose --detach
+    ```
 
     The "max-connections" is optional; I am running this on a very low-RAM
     box, so it helps me.  (Sadly, git-daemon produces a cryptic "Connection
     reset by peer" when the limit is exceeded; be sure to inform your users
     that if they see that message they should try again after some time!)
 
--   add repos using this command:
+-   add repos using this command (change the GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO to yourself):
 
-        bin/gitpod add GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO
+    ```
+    $HOME/bin/gitpod add GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO
+    ```
 
 -   (OPTIONAL) add the "status" repo
-
-        cd
-        git init status
-        cd status
-        git commit --allow-empty -m empty
+    ```
+    cd $HOME/pods
+    git init status
+    cd status
+    git commit --allow-empty -m empty
+    ```
 
 # for "users"
 
-Users use this as `git://this.host/GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO` (for example `git
-clone git://127.0.0.1/sitaramc/gitolite`)
+Users use this as `git://this.host.ip/GITHUB_USER/GITHUB_REPO` (for example `git
+clone git://127.0.0.1/azhai/gitpod`)
 
 # finding the status
 
 There's a very kludgey method to check what repos have recently been "fetched"
 from github.com: just run an ls-remote on a repo called "status":
-
-    git ls-remote git://this.host.name/status
+    ```
+    git ls-remote git://this.host.ip/status
+    ```
 
 A list of tags will show up, each of which is a carefully formatted set of
 date, time, IP address, and repo name.
 
 Yes, it's a kludge, as I already said, but if you can think of a better way to
 show users *something*, I'd be happy to hear it.
-
diff --git a/gitpod b/gitpod
index a64de94..04dcd68 100755
--- a/gitpod
+++ b/gitpod
@@ -1,11 +1,17 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# git daemon --access-hook=/opt/bin/gitpod --base-path=$HOME/pods  \
+#     --informative-errors --max-connections=2                     \
+#     --export-all --reuseaddr --verbose --detach
+
+POD_HOME="$HOME/pods"
+
 # See README for documentation
 
 if [ "$1" = "add" ]
 then
     # we're being run manually from the command line
-    cd
+    cd $POD_HOME
     git clone --mirror https://github.com/$2 $2.git
     exit $?
 fi
@@ -18,20 +24,20 @@ fi
 # get the repo name
 repo=$2	# this is also $PWD, by the way
 # it is a full path; let's trim it a bit for our purposes
-repo=${repo#$HOME/}
+repo=${repo#$POD_HOME/}
 repo=${repo%.git}
 
 # no action needed for status repo
 [ "$repo" = "status/" ] && exit 0
 # about that trailing slash: status is a non-bare repo, so $repo starts out as
-# "$HOME/status/.git", and the two transformations above turn it into "status/"
+# "$POD_HOME/status/.git", and the two transformations above turn it into "status/"
 
 # code to add a tag to an optional "status" repo
 set_status() (
-    [ -d $HOME/status ] || return
+    [ -d $POD_HOME/status ] || return
 
     echo "$*" >> ~/gh.status.log
-    cd $HOME/status
+    cd $POD_HOME/status
     unset GIT_DIR
     git tag "$1"
 
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ set_status() (
     git tag | head -n -100 | while read t
     do
         git tag -d "$t"
-        echo $t >> $HOME/deleted.tags
+        echo $t >> $POD_HOME/deleted.tags
     done
 )