Add Clarification to Config File Location/Name (#4533)

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@ -478,9 +478,10 @@ operating system, this configuration file should be stored as:
`XDG_CONFIG_HOME` environment variable is not set)
Note that these are paths to the TOML file itself (meaning that they shouldn't be named
as `pyproject.toml`), not directories where you store the configuration. Here, `~`
refers to the path to your home directory. On Windows, this will be something like
`C:\\Users\UserName`.
as `pyproject.toml`), not directories where you store the configuration (i.e.,
`black`/`.black` is the file to create and add your configuration options to, in the
`~/.config/` directory). Here, `~` refers to the path to your home directory. On
Windows, this will be something like `C:\\Users\UserName`.
You can also explicitly specify the path to a particular file that you want with
`--config`. In this situation _Black_ will not look for any other file.