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diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/README b/contrib/remote-helpers/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ce8b1b4d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/README
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+The remote-helper bridges to access data stored in Mercurial and
+Bazaar are maintained outside the git.git tree in the repositories
+of its primary author:
+
+    https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg (for Mercurial)
+    https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr (for Bazaar)
+
+You can pick a directory on your $PATH and download them from these
+repositories, e.g.:
+
+  $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg \
+    https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg/master/git-remote-hg
+  $ wget -O $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr \
+    https://raw.github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr/master/git-remote-bzr
+  $ chmod +x $HOME/bin/git-remote-hg $HOME/bin/git-remote-bzr
+
+As a convenience, copies of the last-bundled version of these two
+remote-helper bridges are still kept here, but they may become
+stale over time.
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr
index 9abb58e6ab..be4b9a34ed 100755
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr
+++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ import re
 import StringIO
 import atexit, shutil, hashlib, urlparse, subprocess
 
+sys.stderr.write('WARNING: git-remote-bzr is now maintained independently.\n')
+sys.stderr.write('WARNING: For more information visit https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-bzr\n')
+
 NAME_RE = re.compile('^([^<>]+)')
 AUTHOR_RE = re.compile('^([^<>]+?)? ?[<>]([^<>]*)(?:$|>)')
 EMAIL_RE = re.compile(r'([^ \t<>]+@[^ \t<>]+)')
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
index 34cda02759..989df66c19 100755
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
+++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ import atexit
 import urlparse, hashlib
 import time as ptime
 
+sys.stderr.write('WARNING: git-remote-hg is now maintained independently.\n')
+sys.stderr.write('WARNING: For more information visit https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg\n')
+
 #
 # If you want to see Mercurial revisions as Git commit notes:
 # git config core.notesRef refs/notes/hg