1 checkout.defaultRemote::
2 When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one
3 remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and
4 tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon
5 as you have more than one remote with a '<something>'
6 reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a
7 preferred remote that should always win when it comes to
8 disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
11 Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout
12 <something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
13 and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a
14 remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
15 commands or functionality in the future.
17 checkout.optimizeNewBranch::
18 Optimizes the performance of "git checkout -b <new_branch>" when
19 using sparse-checkout. When set to true, git will not update the
20 repo based on the current sparse-checkout settings. This means it
21 will not update the skip-worktree bit in the index nor add/remove
22 files in the working directory to reflect the current sparse checkout
23 settings nor will it show the local changes.