diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 54c2baea8b..fe85e733c6 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from GIT:
         $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/atk
         $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+
 
+Note: if you plan to push changes to back to the master repository and
+have a gnome account, you want to use the following instead:
+
+        $ git clone ssh://<username>@git.gnome.org/git/gtk+
+
 To compile the GIT version of gtk+ on your system, you will need to take
 several steps to setup the tree for compilation.  You can do all these
 steps at once by running: