From 7206330c15b6d37dba46e311fd5135b25cf9f9e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:01:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [1.5.x] Fixed #17935 - Clarified intro of topics/files.txt.

Thanks guettli for the suggestion.

Backport of f7795e968d from master
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 docs/topics/files.txt | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/topics/files.txt b/docs/topics/files.txt
index 94685f9bc7..c36094a599 100644
--- a/docs/topics/files.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/files.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 Managing files
 ==============
 
-This document describes Django's file access APIs.
+This document describes Django's file access APIs for files such as those
+uploaded by a user. The lower level APIs are general enough that you could use
+them for other purposes. If you want to handle "static files" (JS, CSS, etc),
+see :doc:`/howto/static-files`.
 
 By default, Django stores files locally, using the :setting:`MEDIA_ROOT` and
 :setting:`MEDIA_URL` settings. The examples below assume that you're using these