From fbc0bdba26cc023ae7177f2f03312bdc56dd92de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert McNees <86265089+robertmcnees@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:26:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README instructions for cloning and building

Git Large File Storage is required to clone the project.
To build the project a container runtime (i.e. Docker Desktop)
is required to be running locally.

Signed-off-by: Robert McNees <86265089+robertmcnees@users.noreply.github.com>
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 README.md | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 54924b12a13..f93ada0201d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,15 +57,15 @@ Please refer to the [Getting Started Guide](https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/ref
 ## Cloning the repo
 
 This repository contains [large model files](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/tree/main/models/spring-ai-transformers/src/main/resources/onnx/all-MiniLM-L6-v2).
-To clone it you have to either:
+To clone it you have to:
 
-- Ignore the large files (won't affect the spring-ai behaviour) :  `GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone git@github.com:spring-projects/spring-ai.git`.
-- Or install the [Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.com/) before cloning the repo.
+- Install the [Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.com/) before cloning the repo.
+- Optionally ignore the large files to reduce disk size (won't affect the spring-ai behaviour):  `GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone git@github.com:spring-projects/spring-ai.git`.
 
 
 ## Building
 
-Build using Java 17.
+Build using Java 17. A container runtime is required.
 
 To build with running unit tests