diff --git a/README.adoc b/README.adoc
index 9dccadc0..a02a7e0a 100644
--- a/README.adoc
+++ b/README.adoc
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-// Do not edit this file (e.g. go instead to src/main/asciidoc)
+////
+DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. IT WAS GENERATED.
+Manual changes to this file will be lost when it is generated again.
+Edit the files in the src/main/asciidoc/ directory instead.
+////
 
 image::https://circleci.com/gh/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-commons.svg?style=svg[Build Status, link=https://circleci.com/gh/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-commons]
 
@@ -246,6 +250,7 @@ $ touch .springformat
 ==== Intellij IDEA
 
 In order to setup Intellij you should import our coding conventions, inspection profiles and set up the checkstyle plugin.
+The following files can be found in the https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-build/tree/master/spring-cloud-build-tools[Spring Cloud Build] project.
 
 .spring-cloud-build-tools/
 ----