From d9feb7d3eddb40d09e25eaa526bcb8564f6eb187 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 07:26:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] explain how relative paths are resolved for the basedir
 attribute.  PR 52343

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@1225124 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 manual/using.html | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/manual/using.html b/manual/using.html
index 69483a6fc..836296586 100644
--- a/manual/using.html
+++ b/manual/using.html
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ to be unique. (For additional information, see the
       the &quot;basedir&quot;
       property beforehand. When this is done, it must be omitted in the
       project tag. If neither the attribute nor the property have
-      been set, the parent directory of the buildfile will be used.</td>
+      been set, the parent directory of the buildfile will be used.<br/>
+      A relative path is resolved relative to the directory containing
+      the build file.
+    </td>
     <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
   </tr>
 </table>