diff --git a/ghq.txt b/ghq.txt
index 5ed557ff..cc056136 100644
--- a/ghq.txt
+++ b/ghq.txt
@@ -76,11 +76,13 @@ ghq.<url>.vcs::
     ghq tries to detect the remote repository's VCS backend for non-"github.com"
     repositories.  With this option you can explicitly specify the VCS for the
     remote repository. The URL is matched against '<url>' using 'git config --get-urlmatch'. +
-    Accepted values are "git", "github", "hg", "mercurial". +
+    Accepted values are "git", "github" (an alias for "git"), "mercurial", "hg"
+    (an alias for "mercurial"). +
+    To get this configuration variable effective, you will need Git 1.8.5 or higher. +
     For example in .gitconfig: +
 
 ....
-[ghq "https://ghe.example.com/repos/"]
+[ghq "https://git.example.com/repos/"]
 vcs = git
 ....