Merge branch 'jn/perl-makemaker-leading-paths'

diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index 8416f3445a5e5d3b583733136d4211b8d0bd4084..c1f692a71e54e01f813d84f83eaff4a9514a27b3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ the repository but are specific to one user's workflow) should go into
 the `$GIT_DIR/info/exclude` file.  Patterns which a user wants git to
 ignore in all situations (e.g., backup or temporary files generated by
 the user's editor of choice) generally go into a file specified by
-`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`.
+`core.excludesfile` in the user's `~/.gitconfig`. Its default value is
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
+$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
 
 The underlying git plumbing tools, such as
 'git ls-files' and 'git read-tree', read
@@ -156,11 +158,6 @@ SEE ALSO
 linkgit:git-rm[1], linkgit:git-update-index[1],
 linkgit:gitrepository-layout[5]
 
-Documentation
--------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano, Josh Triplett,
-Frank Lichtenheld, and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite