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diff --git a/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/projects.adoc b/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/projects.adoc
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+++ b/doc/modules/ROOT/pages/projects.adoc
@@ -813,8 +813,13 @@ If you'd like to instruct Projectile to ignore certain files in a
project, when indexing it you can do so in the `.projectile` file by
adding each path to ignore, where the paths all are relative to the
root directory and start with a slash. Everything ignored should be
-preceded with a `-` sign. Alternatively, not having any prefix at all
-also means to ignore the directory or file pattern that follows.
+preceded with a `-` sign.
+
+NOTE: Lines without any prefix at all are still accepted and treated
+as ignore patterns for backward compatibility, but the implicit form
+is being phased out and Projectile now warns about it once per
+project. Prefer the explicit `-` prefix in new dirconfigs.
+
Here's an example for a typical Rails application:
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