From 9c1a0a916bbe6d8144b9bafa9aca08962f9f3425 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stacey Gammon <gammon@elastic.co>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 16:14:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update contributing guide to be explicit about creating a
 fork first

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 CONTRIBUTING.md | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e393e5d7844d7..8ada00bba36da 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@ These guidelines will help you get your Pull Request into shape so that a code r
 
 ### Setting Up Your Development Environment
 
-Clone the `kibana` repo and change directory into it
+Fork, then clone the `kibana` repo and change directory into it
 
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/elastic/kibana.git kibana
+git clone https://github.com/[YOUR_USERNAME]/kibana.git kibana
 cd kibana
 ```