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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-01-11 07:01:56 -0500
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-01-11 08:10:32 -0500
commitb86c3ddce88390dacc04094fbdce1b722fb8127b (patch)
tree978ee9b127e8d7368bf71063bcde371e8d8d4c42
parentc94fcc4117987c4ebe29ad63da01035230c8afd5 (diff)
[1.5.x] Fixed #19437 - Clarified pip install instructions in contributing tutorial.
Backport of 9f9a7f03d7 from master
-rw-r--r--docs/intro/contributing.txt7
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diff --git a/docs/intro/contributing.txt b/docs/intro/contributing.txt
index c94038bc56..f9fb451b39 100644
--- a/docs/intro/contributing.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/contributing.txt
@@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ Download the Django source code repository using the following command::
pip install -e /path/to/your/local/clone/django/
- to link your cloned checkout into a virtual environment. This is a great
- option to isolate your development copy of Django from the rest of your
- system and avoids potential package conflicts.
+ (where ``django`` is the directory of your clone that contains
+ ``setup.py``) to link your cloned checkout into a virtual environment. This
+ is a great option to isolate your development copy of Django from the rest
+ of your system and avoids potential package conflicts.
__ http://www.virtualenv.org