From 74443f185ed91f3388b0e45838262eb3ec8338aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:43:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] git-remote: document the migration feature of the rename
 subcommand

Signed-off-by: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-remote.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-remote.txt b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
index 7b227b307f..fad983e297 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-remote.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-remote.txt
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ was passed.
 
 Rename the remote named <old> to <new>. All remote tracking branches and
 configuration settings for the remote are updated.
++
+In case <old> and <new> are the same, and <old> is a file under
+`$GIT_DIR/remotes` or `$GIT_DIR/branches`, the remote is converted to
+the configuration file format.
 
 'rm'::
 
-- 
2.11.4.GIT