From 571808a7aa50fbc14c7e9db5569167bd19beac9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:12:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] document comments in configuration file (fixes #10024)

---
 README.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc214562d..44332ea9a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ For example, with the following configuration file youtube-dl will always extrac
 --no-mtime
 --proxy 127.0.0.1:3128
 -o ~/Movies/%(title)s.%(ext)s
+# Lines starting with # are comments
 ```
 
 Note that options in configuration file are just the same options aka switches used in regular command line calls thus there **must be no whitespace** after `-` or `--`, e.g. `-o` or `--proxy` but not `- o` or `-- proxy`.