diff --git a/doc/quick-start.xml b/doc/quick-start.xml
index a651a78b1d7..0f11a906d77 100644
--- a/doc/quick-start.xml
+++ b/doc/quick-start.xml
@@ -155,9 +155,10 @@ $ git add pkgs/development/libraries/libfoo/default.nix
- You can use nix-prefetch-url
+ You can use nix-prefetch-url (or similar nix-prefetch-git, etc)
url to get the SHA-256 hash of
- source distributions.
+ source distributions. There are similar commands as nix-prefetch-git and
+ nix-prefetch-hg available in nix-prefetch-scripts package.