diff --git a/doc/TRAINING.rst b/doc/TRAINING.rst
index 39005c60..50828ac2 100644
--- a/doc/TRAINING.rst
+++ b/doc/TRAINING.rst
@@ -12,17 +12,13 @@ Prerequisites for training a model
 Getting the training code
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Clone the master branch from Github:
+Clone the latest released stable branch from Github (e.g. 0.8.2, check `here <https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases>`_ for current version) to start with as the master branch is under active development and might produce errors: 
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-   git clone https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
+   git clone --branch v0.8.2 https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech
    
-Switch to latest release (e.g. 0.8.2) as master is under development:
-
-.. code-block:: bash
-
-   git checkout tags/v0.8.2
+If you plan on committing code or you want to report bugs, please use the master branch.
 
 Creating a virtual environment
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^