diff --git a/Documentation/gitignore.txt b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
index ff5d7f9ed6..d107daaffd 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitignore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitignore.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ gitignore - Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-$HOME/.config/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
+$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore
 
 DESCRIPTION
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