dgit(1): checkout: Document when this acceses the network

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

diff --git a/dgit.1 b/dgit.1
index d5ef9303923240dbc745e0f2fad5cf06b081281d..e7ab454adc1c71fb4b381a5a4b9d3e25558d702f 100644 (file)
--- a/dgit.1
+++ b/dgit.1
@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ NB: dgit checkout will only do a fetch if it has to.
 If you already have the suite branch,
 and want to merge your branch with updates from the archive,
 use dgit pull.
+
+dgit checkout will normally need to aceess the archive server,
+to canonicalise the provided suite name.
+The exception is if you specify the canonical name,
+and the branch (or tracking branch) already exists.
 .TP
 \fBdgit build\fR ...
 Runs