From e2564fdd35ad0e49af27b10f6f7e98de4a4156c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Warren White <74271903+ooojpeg@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2020 01:52:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: Clarify development environment creation for
 documentation changes (#38194)

---
 doc/source/development/contributing.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
index 3c5a88333be56..86d495ef2b097 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
@@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ Creating a development environment
 
 To test out code changes, you'll need to build pandas from source, which
 requires a C/C++ compiler and Python environment. If you're making documentation
-changes, you can skip to :ref:`contributing.documentation` but you won't be able
-to build the documentation locally before pushing your changes.
+changes, you can skip to :ref:`contributing.documentation` but if you skip
+creating the development environment you won't be able to build the documentation
+locally before pushing your changes.
 
 Using a Docker container
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~