From b9095440c9a1e7d647362a144c3288b4577ba4e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcus Smith <qwcode@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 21:30:26 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] add comment about the order of requirements file
 preprocessing

---
 docs/reference/pip_install.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/reference/pip_install.rst b/docs/reference/pip_install.rst
index ff7d56592..489e0b09f 100644
--- a/docs/reference/pip_install.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/pip_install.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ treated as a comment.
 A line ending in an unescaped ``\`` is treated as a line continuation
 and the newline following it is effectively ignored.
 
+Comments are stripped *before* line continuations are processed.
+
 Additionally, the following Package Index Options are supported:
 
   *  :ref:`-i, --index-url <--index-url>`