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@@ -107,26 +107,41 @@ osm ns-create ... --config-file vars.yaml
 
 This section will focus the attention on creating a Proxy charm to configure a workload.
 
-Create a folder for the `samplecharm` in the VNFD directory, and create necessary files:
-
+Create a folder for the `samplecharm` in the VNFD directory, and create necessary files (use one of the two following ways):
+ - Given that you are developing in your local machine:
+   ```bash
+   mkdir -p charms/samplecharm/
+   cd charms/samplecharm/
+   mkdir hooks lib mod src
+   touch src/charm.py
+   touch actions.yaml metadata.yaml config.yaml
+   chmod +x src/charm.py
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/upgrade-charm
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/install
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/start
+   git clone https://github.com/canonical/operator mod/operator
+   git clone https://github.com/charmed-osm/charms.osm mod/charms.osm
+   ln -s ../mod/operator/ops lib/ops
+   ln -s ../mod/charms.osm/charms lib/charms
+   ```
+ - Given that you are developing in a Git repository:
+   ```bash
+   mkdir -p charms/samplecharm/
+   cd charms/samplecharm/
+   mkdir hooks lib mod src
+   touch src/charm.py
+   touch actions.yaml metadata.yaml config.yaml
+   chmod +x src/charm.py
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/upgrade-charm
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/install
+   ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/start
+   git submodule add https://github.com/canonical/operator mod/operator
+   git submodule add https://github.com/charmed-osm/charms.osm mod/charms.osm
+   ln -s ../mod/operator/ops lib/ops
+   ln -s ../mod/charms.osm/charms lib/charms
+   ```
 > Go to [charms.osm](https://github.com/charmed-osm/charms.osm) if you want to learn more about how to use the charms.osm library.
 
-```bash
-mkdir -p charms/samplecharm/
-cd charms/samplecharm/
-mkdir hooks lib mod src
-touch src/charm.py
-touch actions.yaml metadata.yaml config.yaml
-chmod +x src/charm.py
-ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/upgrade-charm
-ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/install
-ln -s ../src/charm.py hooks/start
-git clone https://github.com/canonical/operator mod/operator
-git clone https://github.com/charmed-osm/charms.osm mod/charms.osm
-ln -s ../mod/operator/ops lib/ops
-ln -s ../mod/charms.osm/charms lib/charms
-```
-
 Include the following high level metadata in `metadata.yaml`:
 
 ```yaml