diff --git a/integration-tests/mysql-client-tests/README.md b/integration-tests/mysql-client-tests/README.md
index 071add29c5..418be13868 100644
--- a/integration-tests/mysql-client-tests/README.md
+++ b/integration-tests/mysql-client-tests/README.md
@@ -1,15 +1,18 @@
 ## MySQL Client Tests
-We created smoke tests for Dolt's MySQL client integrations and we run these tests through Github Actions
+We created smoke tests for Dolt's MySQL client integrations and we run these tests through GitHub Actions
 on pull requests.
 
-These tests can be run locally using Docker. From the root directory of this repo, run:
+These tests can be run locally using Docker. Before you can build the image, you also need to copy the go folder
+into the integration-tests folder; unfortunately just symlinking doesn't seem to work. From the
+integration-tests directory of the dolt repo, run:
+
 ```bash
+$ cp -r ../go . 
 $ docker build -t mysql-client-tests -f MySQLDockerfile .
 $ docker run mysql-client-tests:latest
 ```
 
-The `docker build` step will take a few minutes to complete as it needs to install all of the
-dependencies in the image.
+The `docker build` step will take a few minutes to complete as it needs to install all the dependencies in the image.
 
 Running the built container will produce output like:
 ```bash