From 3614d55aa1ad918c6a3f1d74a43358dd40933c43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Scholten <marcphilipscholten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:17:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add link to hacking section of the manual (#973)

---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e77ce302f..d59dc694e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,6 +9,11 @@ To find out more about the tool, usage and installation instructions, please
 read the manual, which is available on the Nix website at
 <http://nixos.org/nix/manual>.
 
+## Contributing
+
+Take a look at the [Hacking Section](http://nixos.org/nix/manual/#chap-hacking)
+of the manual. It helps you to get started with building nix from source.
+
 ## License
 
 Nix is released under the LGPL v2.1