README: add instructions for release-17.03 branch

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@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ will write to your dconf store and cannot tell whether a configuration
that it is about to be overwrite was from a previous Home Manager
generation or from manual configuration.
Home Manager targets [NixOS][] version 17.03 (the current stable
version), it may or may not work on other Linux distributions and
NixOS versions.
Home Manager targets [NixOS][] unstable and NixOS version 17.03 (the
current stable version), it may or may not work on other Linux
distributions and NixOS versions.
Also, the `home-manager` tool does not explicitly support rollbacks at
the moment so if your home directory gets messed up you'll have to fix
@ -50,9 +50,18 @@ Currently the easiest way to install Home Manager is as follows:
directory:
```
$ git clone https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager
$ git clone -b master https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager
```
or
```
$ git clone -b release-17.03 https://github.com/rycee/home-manager ~/.config/nixpkgs/home-manager
```
depending on whether you are tracking Nixpkgs unstable or version
17.03.
3. Add Home Manager to your user's Nixpkgs, for example by adding it
to the `packageOverrides` section in your
`~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix` file: