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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config/checkout.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index c4118fa196..6b646813ab 100644 --- 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>' @@ -8,16 +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. - -checkout.optimizeNewBranch:: - Optimizes the performance of "git checkout -b <new_branch>" when - using sparse-checkout. When set to true, git will not update the - repo based on the current sparse-checkout settings. This means it - will not update the skip-worktree bit in the index nor add/remove - files in the working directory to reflect the current sparse checkout - settings nor will it show the local changes. |