rebase: add a config option to default to --reschedule-failed-exec

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index ca5fc9c79887652e38e3d11dc86dba657fe585c0..801de2f7645bf0b1fc506da58d469519abca8863 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ equivalent to
 $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>
 ------------
 +
+If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by
+the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that
+one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't
+unique across all remotes. Set it to
+e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote
+branches from there if `<branch>` is ambiguous but exists on the
+'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in
+linkgit:git-config[1].
++
 You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to
 "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
 rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
@@ -302,9 +311,9 @@ branch refers to a specific commit. Let's look at a repo with three
 commits, one of them tagged, and with branch 'master' checked out:
 
 ------------
-          HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
-           |
-           v
+           HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
+            |
+            v
 a---b---c  branch 'master' (refers to commit 'c')
     ^
     |
@@ -320,9 +329,9 @@ to commit 'd':
 ------------
 $ edit; git add; git commit
 
-              HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
-               |
-               v
+               HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
+                |
+                v
 a---b---c---d  branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd')
     ^
     |
@@ -389,7 +398,7 @@ at what happens when we then checkout master:
 ------------
 $ git checkout master
 
-              HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
+               HEAD (refers to branch 'master')
       e---f     |
      /          v
 a---b---c---d  branch 'master' (refers to commit 'd')