diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -259,9 +259,9 @@ If there are multiple config files, each one of them can be run one after the ot
 If using a data repository, push the newly created profiles to DVC and the .dvc files and other files to GitHub as follows
 
 ```bash
-dvc add profiles/${BATCH} --recursive
+dvc add profiles/${BATCH}
 dvc push
-git add profiles/${BATCH}/*/*.dvc profiles/${BATCH}/*/*.gitignore
+git add profiles/${BATCH}.dvc profiles/${BATCH}.gitignore
 git commit -m 'add profiles'
 git add *
 git commit -m 'add files made in profiling'