From 53707ce43b13c2d924c7c1fdce411936e8ca4eae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tiancaiamao <tiancaiamao@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:19:07 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] *: tiny update CONTRIBUTING.md (#8814)

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index eed7fbd2b1279..e85f876ea743c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -63,8 +63,25 @@ please [set one up](http://golang.org/doc/code.html).
 
 The version of GO should be **1.11** or above.
 
-After installation, you'll need `GOPATH` defined,
-and `PATH` modified to access your Go binaries.
+After installation, there are two ways to build TiDB binary.
+
+#### For a quick taste
+
+The `GOPATH` is not necessary.
+
+```
+mkdir tmp
+cd tmp
+echo 'module tidb' > go.mod
+GO111MODULE=on go get github.com/pingcap/tidb@c385cbdcca83eeed283139814a7ea149e3116e66
+GO111MODULE=on go build -o tidb-server github.com/pingcap/tidb/tidb-server
+```
+
+The `c385cbdcca83eeed283139814a7ea149e3116e66` can be changed to any other commit hash. Try the latest commit hash [here](https://github.com/pingcap/tidb/commits/master).
+
+#### For development
+
+You'll need `GOPATH` defined, and `PATH` modified to access your Go binaries.
 
 A common setup is the following but you could always google a setup for your own flavor.