diff --git a/docs/development/contributing.rst b/docs/development/contributing.rst
index f53a971b..b06b7311 100644
--- a/docs/development/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/development/contributing.rst
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ Creating releases
 
 4. Build package and upload to PyPI::
 
+    rm MANIFEST                         # Will be regenerated by setup.py
     python setup.py sdist upload
 
 5. Spread the word.