doc: added information on how to run the linter.

diosney · addaleax · commit fa46e503b54c · 2016-07-10T22:16:37.000+02:00
Added clarification about the linter execution. PR-URL: #7534 Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -150,6 +150,9 @@ $ ./configure && make -j8 test
 Make sure the linter is happy and that all tests pass. Please, do not submit
 patches that fail either check.
 
+Running `make test` will run the linter as well unless one or more tests fail.
+If you want to run the linter without running tests, use `make lint`.
+
 If you are updating tests and just want to run a single test to check it, you
 can use this syntax to run it exactly as the test harness would:
 
