checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / config / checkout.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
index c4118fa1968711c9f5e6c491913a63c86d5ea20c..d6872ffa83ea5a715e0cc3b0e6dde77efafb026b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 checkout.defaultRemote::
-       When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one
+       When you run 'git checkout <something>'
+       or 'git switch <something>' and only have one
        remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and
        tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon
        as you have more than one remote with a '<something>'
@@ -8,8 +9,10 @@ checkout.defaultRemote::
        disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
        `origin`.
 +
-Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout
-<something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
+Currently this is used by linkgit:git-switch[1] and
+linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout <something>'
+or 'git switch <something>'
+will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
 and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a
 remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
 commands or functionality in the future.