diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 50503e84b92..1d96adf30bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ You probably do not need to adjust this value.
 +
 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
 
-core.excludeFile::
+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