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@@ -58,11 +58,10 @@ target will also run 'go vet' and 'golint'. golint may need to be installed
 
 ## Releasing
 
-If travis has a github api key provided (see goreleaser docs), it will upload
-the binaries to the release after making a release in github (or pushing a
-tag). Otherwise, after tagging, a release can be made by running the following,
-where 'v0.1.2' is the recent tag:
+Create a release in github, and then run the following locally to build and
+upload the binaries to the release, where 'v0.1.2' is the recent tag:
 
     export GITHUB_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxyyyyyyyyzzzzzzzzz
+    git pull
     make clean
-    TRAVIS_TAG=v0.1.2 goreleaser
+    goreleaser