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diff --git a/src/config.l b/src/config.l
index 1e49a28..a9ca7c0 100644
--- a/src/config.l
+++ b/src/config.l
@@ -1838,7 +1838,9 @@ void Config::create()
"EXCLUDE_PATTERNS",
"If the value of the INPUT tag contains directories, you can use the \n"
"EXCLUDE_PATTERNS tag to specify one or more wildcard patterns to exclude \n"
- "certain files from those directories. \n"
+ "certain files from those directories. Note that the wildcards are matched \n"
+ "against the file with absolute path, so to exclude all test directories \n"
+ "for example use the pattern */test/* \n"
);
cl = addList(
"EXAMPLE_PATH",