diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c018a1e57e3673bddecb5e9c7d531b28aa329822..e3bb95b2b7655db356691258352686fc2acadaab 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ include/xfitter
 SACOT/src/mdispac.mod
 doc/html/
 build/
+datafiles/*
+!datafiles/hera/h1zeusCombined/inclusiveDis/1506.06042
+!datafiles/README
 
 #Automake generated files
 *.o
diff --git a/datafiles/README b/datafiles/README
index 1e17737aabeb3f87665f54eeffcb59e40d172284..0a107069891a03558c7a6dea78a7467fc2beb44f 100644
--- a/datafiles/README
+++ b/datafiles/README
@@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ The data tables are grouped according to the collider, experiment and process,
 such that the path to a data sets looks like:
 colliderName/experimentName/processType/arxivNumber/
 
-By default only HERA data are provided (as used in EPJC75 (2015) no.12, 580) 
-together with the xFitter package. In order to download other datasets (LHC, 
-Tevatron, etc) please use tools/xfitter-getdata.sh scipt, also available in 
-xfitter.org release download web page 
-(type ./xfitter-getdata.sh --help for instructions how to use it).
+By default only HERA data are provided together with the xFitter package, 
+in order to download all other datasets:
+
+git clone https://gitlab.cern.ch/ozenaiev/xfitter-datafiles temp-datafiles
+mv temp-datafiles/.git datafiles/.git
+rm -rf temp-datafiles
+cd datafiles
+git reset --hard HEAD
+
+TODO: move repository
+https://gitlab.cern.ch/ozenaiev/xfitter-datafiles --> https://gitlab.cern.ch/fitters/xfitter-datafiles