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diff --git a/examples/example.rdiff b/examples/example.rdiff
index 698776e..25cd26e 100644
--- a/examples/example.rdiff
+++ b/examples/example.rdiff
@@ -33,12 +33,23 @@ type = local
 # (you can also use the time format of rdiff-backup, e.g. 6D5h)
 keep = 60
 
-# a note about includes and excludes:
-# All the excludes come after all the includes. The order is
-# not otherwise taken into account. 
+# A few notes about includes and excludes:
+# 1. include, exclude and vsinclude statements support globbing with '*'
+# 2. Symlinks are not dereferenced. Moreover, an include line whose path
+#    contains, at any level, a symlink to a directory, will only have the
+#    symlink backed-up, not the target directory's content. Yes, you have to
+#    dereference yourself the symlinks, or to use 'mount --bind' instead.
+#    Example: let's say /home is a symlink to /mnt/crypt/home ; the following
+#    line will only backup a "/home" symlink ; neither /home/user nor
+#    /home/user/Mail will be backed-up :
+#      include = /home/user/Mail
+#    A workaround is to 'mount --bind /mnt/crypt/home /home' ; another one is to
+#    write :
+#      include = /mnt/crypt/home/user/Mail
+# 3. All the excludes come after all the includes. The order is not otherwise
+#    taken into account.
 
 # files to include in the backup
-# (supports globbing with '*')
 include = /var/spool/cron/crontabs
 include = /var/backups
 include = /etc
@@ -63,10 +74,8 @@ include = /var/lib/dpkg/status-old
 # vsinclude will add to the include list /vservers/foo/home, /vservers/bar/home
 # and /vservers/baz/home.
 # Vservers paths are derived from $VROOTDIR.
-# vsinclude supports globbing with '*'.
 
 # files to exclude from the backup
-# (supports globbing with '*')
 #exclude = /home/*/.gnupg
 
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