problem with steps listed in CONTRIBUTING.md

[sacheendra]

The information given in CONTRIBUTING.md regarding getting and building doesn't seem to be working. A git clone of cockroach, then a git clone of rocksdb into _vendor and then running make seems to work. (after installing rocksdb dependencies ofcourse).
Does the file need an update?

[mikesun]

The preferred way of cloning the repo is via the go get command. There is a warning about missing files from RocksDB as go get will attempt to build and install the package as well. An alternative to suppress that error message is use go get -d, which will only download the repo.

After this you will need to run the ./bootstrap.sh script, which will take care of cloning the rocksdb submodule among other things. You can then run make, assuming you have installed required dependencies.

[sacheendra]

Thanks for clarifying that. It would be nice if the doc showed the '-d' flag.