diff --git a/src/borg/remote.py b/src/borg/remote.py
index ecf438367..4ebc135ce 100644
--- a/src/borg/remote.py
+++ b/src/borg/remote.py
@@ -422,18 +422,22 @@ class SleepingBandwidthLimiter:
 def api(*, since, **kwargs_decorator):
     """Check version requirements and use self.call to do the remote method call.
 
-    <since> specifies the version in which borg introduced this method,
-    calling this method when connected to an older version will fail without transmiting
-    anything to the server.
+    <since> specifies the version in which borg introduced this method.
+    Calling this method when connected to an older version will fail without transmitting anything to the server.
 
-    Further kwargs can be used to encode version specific restrictions.
-    If a previous hardcoded behaviour is parameterized in a version, this allows calls that
-    use the previously hardcoded behaviour to pass through and generates an error if another
-    behaviour is requested by the client.
+    Further kwargs can be used to encode version specific restrictions:
 
-    e.g. when 'append_only' was introduced in 1.0.7 the previous behaviour was what now is append_only=False.
+    <previously> is the value resulting in the behaviour before introducing the new parameter.
+    If a previous hardcoded behaviour is parameterized in a version, this allows calls that use the previously
+    hardcoded behaviour to pass through and generates an error if another behaviour is requested by the client.
+    E.g. when 'append_only' was introduced in 1.0.7 the previous behaviour was what now is append_only=False.
     Thus @api(..., append_only={'since': parse_version('1.0.7'), 'previously': False}) allows calls
     with append_only=False for all version but rejects calls using append_only=True on versions older than 1.0.7.
+
+    <dontcare> is a flag to set the behaviour if an old version is called the new way.
+    If set to True, the method is called without the (not yet supported) parameter (this should be done if that is the
+    more desirable behaviour). If False, an exception is generated.
+    E.g. before 'threshold' was introduced in 1.2.0a8, a hardcoded threshold of 0.1 was used in commit().
     """
     def decorator(f):
         @functools.wraps(f)