@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
checkout.defaultRemote::
- When you run 'git checkout <something>'
- or 'git switch <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>'
+ tracking e.g. `origin/<something>`. This stops working as soon
+ as you have more than one remote with a `<something>`
reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a
preferred remote that should always win when it comes to
disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
`origin`.
+
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
+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.
The modern style for Git documentation is to use backticks to quote any command-line documenation so that it is typeset in monospace. Replace all single quotes with backticks to conform to this. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> --- Documentation/config/checkout.txt | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)