diff --git a/config/gitlab.yml.example b/config/gitlab.yml.example
index c63e8cb7dede4b42fb4b946e4b7d7344a9c33971..be9ca8dc8c1a74489d56397bd8f1e5014a09a94d 100644
--- a/config/gitlab.yml.example
+++ b/config/gitlab.yml.example
@@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ production: &base
   # Use the default values unless you really know what you are doing
   git:
     bin_path: /usr/bin/git
-    # Max size of a git object (e.g. a commit), in bytes
+    # The next value is the maximum memory size grit can use
+    # Given in number of bytes per git object (e.g. a commit)
     # This value can be increased if you have very large commits
     max_size: 5242880 # 5.megabytes
     # Git timeout to read a commit, in seconds
diff --git a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
index 764c34dc69131f1e3b4314521c305d231c39aeab..0860d2a8693fe6bb802cc31d7b950e97ee25471c 100644
--- a/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
+++ b/lib/support/nginx/gitlab
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ server {
   server_tokens off;     # don't show the version number, a security best practice
   root /home/git/gitlab/public;
   
-  # Set value of client_max_body_size to at least the value of git.max_size in gitlab.yml
+  # Increase this if you want to upload large attachments
+  # Or if you want to accept large git objects over http
   client_max_body_size 5m;
 
   # individual nginx logs for this gitlab vhost