diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 018ab20..7647320 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ In particular the branch name, difference with remote branch, number of files st
 
 (an original idea from this [blog post][]).
 
+`gitstatus.sh` added by [AKS](http://github.com/aks).
+
 ## Examples
 
 The prompt may look like the following: 
@@ -57,7 +59,8 @@ The symbols are as follows:
    currently you have to tweak it in the ``gitprompt.sh``
 3. You can define ``prompt_callback`` function to tweak your prompt dynamicly
 4. The current git repo information is obtained by the script `gitstatus.sh` or
-   `gitstatus.py`.  Both scripts do the same thing.
+   `gitstatus.py`.  Both scripts do the same thing, but the bash script is a tad
+   bit more quick, and is used by default.
 
 ```sh
 function prompt_callback {
diff --git a/gitstatus.sh b/gitstatus.sh
index 0561ee5..d290e07 100755
--- a/gitstatus.sh
+++ b/gitstatus.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #/bin/bash
 # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
+# gitstatus.sh -- produce the current git repo status on STDOUT
+# Functionally equivalent to 'gitstatus.py', but written in bash (not python).
+#
+# Alan K. Stebbens <aks@stebbens.org> [http://github.com/aks]
 
 # change those symbols to whatever you prefer
 declare -a symbols