$GIT_COMMON_DIR: a new environment variable

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 205e80ef884a8c8852d7e83ca1ee660a5e1e8414..09e82c31bd320a162689a7f2d919de439d05375a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-$GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
+$HOME/.config/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ PATTERN FORMAT
    Put a backslash ("`\`") in front of the first hash for patterns
    that begin with a hash.
 
+ - Trailing spaces are ignored unless they are quoted with backslash
+   ("`\`").
+
  - An optional prefix "`!`" which negates the pattern; any
    matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become
    included again. It is not possible to re-include a file if a parent