diff --git a/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos.mdwn b/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos.mdwn
index dbad550166..1082fb62cf 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos.mdwn
@@ -45,3 +45,5 @@ Debian Testing, git annex version 8.20200330-1
 ### Have you had any luck using git-annex before? (Sometimes we get tired of reading bug reports all day and a lil' positive end note does wonders)
 
 Oh it's great, especially the low level plumbing commands. I use it for all my backups by first backup up each machine into a Bup repo, and then storing the bup packs/indices in git-annex, which I use for sync'ing across machines.
+
+> [[notabug|done]] --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos/comment_1_a081b3e4bd25f6d18fe8cdcd3385ae94._comment b/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos/comment_1_a081b3e4bd25f6d18fe8cdcd3385ae94._comment
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index 0000000000..fb60e1c882
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+++ b/doc/bugs/checkpresentkey_false_negatives_in_bare_repos/comment_1_a081b3e4bd25f6d18fe8cdcd3385ae94._comment
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2020-06-16T16:37:24Z"
+ content="""
+git-annex checkpresentkey checks if a key is present in remotes.
+
+Your bare repository does not have any remotes that contain the key
+(due to not having any remotes at all). This is why checkpresentkey is
+behaving like this.
+
+The same behavior happens if you remove the origin remote from the nonbare
+repo and run the command there.
+
+The documentation seems clear enough about this behavior, although there
+is the use of "somewhere" in this part:
+
+	When no remote is specified,  it  verifies  if  the  key's  content  is
+	present  somewhere, checking accessible remotes until it finds the con‐
+	tent.
+
+Which I suppose could be interpreted to mean, if the key
+is present in the local repo, it's "somewhere".
+"""]]
diff --git a/doc/git-annex-checkpresentkey.mdwn b/doc/git-annex-checkpresentkey.mdwn
index 5e85e569f5..baa5ba47c3 100644
--- a/doc/git-annex-checkpresentkey.mdwn
+++ b/doc/git-annex-checkpresentkey.mdwn
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ This plumbing-level command verifies if the specified key's content
 is present in the specified remote.
 
 When no remote is specified, it verifies if the key's content is present
-somewhere, checking accessible remotes until it finds the content.
+in any accessible remotes.
 
-Exits 0 if the content is verified present, or 1 if it is verified to not
-be present. If there is a problem, the special exit code 100 is used,
-and an error message is output to stderr.
+Exits 0 if the content is verified present in the remote, or 1 if it is
+verified to not be present in the remote. If there is a problem, 
+the special exit code 100 is used, and an error message is output to stderr.
 
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