diff --git a/Contributing.md b/Contributing.md
index b986a887c92..a2a3617fd23 100644
--- a/Contributing.md
+++ b/Contributing.md
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ hacking on the rustfmt codebase. It's strongly discouraged to install a version
 of rustfmt from source. Instead, run it using `cargo run`, and `--manifest-path`.
 
 ```
-cargo run --bin cargo-fmt -- --manifest-path path/to/project/you/want2test/Cargo.toml
+RUSTFMT="./target/debug/rustfmt" cargo run --bin cargo-fmt -- --manifest-path path/to/project/you/want2test/Cargo.toml
 ```
 
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