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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 915cb5a54..20e95318f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -483,7 +483,9 @@ core.excludesfile:: '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns 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]. + home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. + If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore + is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. core.askpass:: Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively |