diff --git a/staging/README.md b/staging/README.md
index 9b109c0a54e..5ae7205975f 100644
--- a/staging/README.md
+++ b/staging/README.md
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@ This directory is the staging area for packages that have been split to their
 own repository. The content here will be periodically published to respective
 top-level k8s.io repositories.
 
-Most code in the `staging/` directory is authoritative, i.e. the only copy of
-the code. You can directly modify such code. However the packages in
-`staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg` are copied from `pkg/`. If you modify the
-original code in `pkg/`, you need to run `hack/godep-restore.sh` from the k8s
-root directory, followed by `hack/update-staging-client-go.sh`. We are working
-towards making all code in `staging/` authoritative.
+The code in the `staging/` directory is authoritative, i.e. the only copy of
+the code. You can directly modify such code.
 
 The `vendor/k8s.io` directory contains symlinks pointing to this staging area,
 so to use a package in the staging area, you can import it as