diff --git a/src/doc/crawler.rst b/src/doc/crawler.rst
index fe487c550894b04721fe65b5195dacf0105685e1..aea023192c0b95c784d5ac91ade12d0c30591d42 100644
--- a/src/doc/crawler.rst
+++ b/src/doc/crawler.rst
@@ -122,11 +122,11 @@ in the LinkAhead distribution of CaosDB). In this case the root file
 system as seen from within the CaosDB docker process is used.
 
 
-You can provide a `.caosdbignore` file as a commandline option to the above
-loadFiles command. The syntax of that file is the same as for `.gitignore`
-files. Note, that you can have additional `.caosdbignore` files at lower levels
-which are appended to the current ignore file and have an effect of the
-respective subtree.
+You can provide a ``.caosdbignore`` file as a commandline option to the above
+loadFiles command. The syntax of that file is the same as for `gitignore
+<https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore>`_ files. Note, that you can have additional
+``.caosdbignore`` files at lower levels which are appended to the current ignore
+file and have an effect of the respective subtree.
 
 
 Extending the Crawlers