diff --git a/Jupyter_Pages/README.md b/Jupyter_Pages/README.md
index 1eb758e9fd01403404b436149265d6a6f8f6454b..03c69ce4e6ad4493649b906321bd2be4e93512cd 100644
--- a/Jupyter_Pages/README.md
+++ b/Jupyter_Pages/README.md
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ To commit updates when running this from a station's Jupyter Notebook, do:
     ssh tangosys@station
     cd git/tango/jupyter-notebooks/python_test_scripts/Jupyter_Pages
 
-And then commit changes:
+If you cannot login as lofarsys, ask for your public key to be added to `~tangosys/.ssh/authorized_keys`. 
+
+Git commits require you to state your identity, as to know who did this commit:
 
     git add <notebook>.ipynb # add file to commit list
-    git commit -m "i added this very cool notebook update"
+    GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="Your Name" GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL="you@astron.nl" git commit -m "i added this very cool notebook update"
 
-If you cannot login as lofarsys, ask for your public key to be added to `~tangosys/.ssh/authorized_keys`. 
+If you don't do this, ``git`` will tempt you to configure the name and email permanently. Doing so means all checkins from this system will be done under your name, however.