From 33fcd6b1fae1838dbe096f8a08fea5fd28cba8be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matilde Park <matilde@tlon.io>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:58:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] meta: add dev ship instructions from master

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index b64ef9c03..ba708d4e7 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ To resume a fake ship, just pass the name of the pier:
 $ urbit my-fake-zod
 ```
 
+Fake ships by default use the same pre-compiled kernelspace ('pills') as livenet
+ships do: boot pills, which are not always current with `master`. If you wish to
+develop using code off the master branch, run the following from the repo
+directory:
+
+```
+git lfs install
+git lfs pull
+urbit -F zod -B "bin/solid.pill" -A "pkg/arvo"
+```
+
 ## Git practice
 
 ### Contributing