diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
@@ -1293,7 +1293,20 @@ The full set of options is:
     authority certificates. Environment variables and ``~user``
     constructs are expanded in the filename. If specified on the
     client, then it will verify the identity of remote HTTPS servers
-    with these certificates. The form must be as follows::
+    with these certificates.
+
+    This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6 or later. If you wish
+    to use it with earlier versions of Python, install the backported
+    version of the ssl library that is available from
+    ``http://pypi.python.org``.
+
+    To disable SSL verification temporarily, specify ``--insecure`` from
+    command line.
+
+    You can use OpenSSL's CA certificate file if your platform has
+    one. On most Linux systems this will be
+    ``/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt``. Otherwise you will have to
+    generate this file manually. The form must be as follows::
 
         -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
         ... (certificate in base64 PEM encoding) ...
@@ -1302,18 +1315,6 @@ The full set of options is:
         ... (certificate in base64 PEM encoding) ...
         -----END CERTIFICATE-----
 
-    This feature is only supported when using Python 2.6 or later. If you wish
-    to use it with earlier versions of Python, install the backported
-    version of the ssl library that is available from
-    ``http://pypi.python.org``.
-
-    You can use OpenSSL's CA certificate file if your platform has one.
-    On most Linux systems this will be ``/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt``.
-    Otherwise you will have to generate this file manually.
-
-    To disable SSL verification temporarily, specify ``--insecure`` from
-    command line.
-
 ``cache``
     Whether to support caching in hgweb. Defaults to True.