Merge branch 'th/remote-usage' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / config.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index d1e2120e15b37a14eec5b3d1de9752da8f6ad7af..01766b0aa59afbe6711c1f48944e661428bb15aa 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -380,8 +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.  See
-       linkgit:gitignore[5].
+       of files which are not meant to be tracked.  "{tilde}/" is expanded
+       to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
+       home directory.  See linkgit:gitignore[5].
 
 core.editor::
        Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
@@ -670,6 +671,8 @@ color.ui::
 
 commit.template::
        Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
+       "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the
+       specified user's home directory.
 
 diff.autorefreshindex::
        When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree