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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 958006ca7..143afb82e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -380,9 +380,9 @@ Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.excludesfile:: In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns - of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" and "~user/" - are expanded to the specified user's home directory. See - linkgit:gitignore[5]. + of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded + to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the specified user's + home directory. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. core.editor:: Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit @@ -667,7 +667,8 @@ color.ui:: commit.template:: Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. - "~/" and "~user/" are expanded to the specified user's home directory. + "~/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "~user/" to the + specified user's home directory. diff.autorefreshindex:: When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree |