From 64fba173ff92c5dc58076bf073db87e8254cdd6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Kiss <him@richardkiss.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:22:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md.

Note that setuptools_scm requires `.git` directory
---
 README.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d5aee3270b5e..209b0f0c1367 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+**Note** due to the use of `setuptools-scm`, you must clone the repo.
+**Downloading the zip file provided by github will not work** as the `.git` metadata used to calculate the
+version number is not present in the zip file.
+
 # chia-blockchain
 Python 3.7 is used for this project. Make sure your default python version is >=3.7 by typing python3.