diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
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@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ or to run the whole suite:
 
     prove
 
+However currently there is an issue where this interferes with
+`TEST_VERBOSE`.
+
 Translating Stow
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