The behavior of 'rustup override' is not very well known. This patch is
a small edit that adds details about what it does, so users have a better
understanding of how it affects their system toolchain (i.e., it does
not affect system toolchain and only sets a directory-specific
override).

Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
---
 Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
index bb67deb19100..700d37dcff5c 100644
--- a/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
+++ b/Documentation/rust/quick-start.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ and run::
 
 	rustup override set $(scripts/min-tool-version.sh rustc)
 
-Otherwise, fetch a standalone installer from:
+This will configure your working directory to use the correct version of
+``rustc`` without affecting your default toolchain. If you are not using
+``rustup``, fetch a standalone installer from::
 
 	https://forge.rust-lang.org/infra/other-installation-methods.html#standalone
 
-- 
2.34.1

> The behavior of 'rustup override' is not very well known. This patch is
> a small edit that adds details about what it does, so users have a better
> understanding of how it affects their system toolchain (i.e., it does
> not affect system toolchain and only sets a directory-specific
> override).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

On 7/18/23 02:44, Trevor Gross wrote:
> The behavior of 'rustup override' is not very well known. This patch is
> a small edit that adds details about what it does, so users have a better
> understanding of how it affects their system toolchain (i.e., it does
> not affect system toolchain and only sets a directory-specific
> override).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
> ---
> [...]
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>