From 5cc1f13d1586da62efbff3163f19c2bbcaea83ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 19:28:17 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [1.8.x] Fixed #25010 -- Documented APP_DIRS default in
 startproject's settings.py

Backport of 4a6656488893b6a832726cade2d2c5aa04f85ae2 from master
---
 docs/ref/settings.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/ref/settings.txt b/docs/ref/settings.txt
index cc3596654a..8c865edb71 100644
--- a/docs/ref/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/settings.txt
@@ -2394,6 +2394,11 @@ Default: ``False``
 Whether the engine should look for template source files inside installed
 applications.
 
+.. note::
+
+    The default :file:`settings.py` file created by :djadmin:`django-admin
+    startproject <startproject>` sets ``'APP_DIRS': True``.
+
 .. setting:: TEMPLATES-OPTIONS
 
 OPTIONS