diff --git a/doc/walkthrough/getting_file_content.mdwn b/doc/walkthrough/getting_file_content.mdwn
index a863303cef..5c899ee3c5 100644
--- a/doc/walkthrough/getting_file_content.mdwn
+++ b/doc/walkthrough/getting_file_content.mdwn
@@ -13,4 +13,7 @@ USB drive.
 
 Notice that you had to git pull from laptop first, this lets git-annex know
 what has changed in laptop, and so it knows about the files present there and
-can get them.
+can get them. The alternate approach is to set up a central bare repository,
+and always push changes to it after committing them, then in the above,
+you can just pull from the central repository to get synced up to all
+repositories.