From 7349e7db8cc54849d36aca800e3355ec3be9c33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Winfried Plappert <18740761+wplapper@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 14:15:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] check - update documentation

---
 doc/045_working_with_repos.rst | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
index a6742cf0e..b2ea8cce1 100644
--- a/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
+++ b/doc/045_working_with_repos.rst
@@ -464,13 +464,10 @@ If the repository structure is intact, restic will show that ``no errors were fo
     check snapshots, trees and blobs
     no errors were found
 
-By default, check creates a new temporary cache directory to verify that the
-data stored in the repository is intact. To reuse the existing cache, you can
-use the ``--with-cache`` flag.
-
-If the cache directory is not explicitly set, then ``check`` creates its
-temporary cache directory in the temporary directory, see :ref:`temporary_files`.
-Otherwise, the specified cache directory is used, as described in :ref:`caching`.
+By default, ``check`` will use the current cache, and it will verify each cache object before
+proceeding to make sure that there is no bit rot in the local cache. You can
+explicitely request ``check`` to acquire a temporary cache via option ``--temporary-cache``.
+Alternative you can tell ``check``  not to verify the cache by using option ``--no-cache-verify``.
 
 By default, the ``check`` command does not verify that the actual pack files
 on disk in the repository are unmodified, because doing so requires reading