diff --git a/admin-guide/configuration/distribute_files.md b/admin-guide/configuration/distribute_files.md
index 2cf0bf2c..7c6e5170 100644
--- a/admin-guide/configuration/distribute_files.md
+++ b/admin-guide/configuration/distribute_files.md
@@ -86,11 +86,16 @@ Example:
 ```
 files::git:
   /var/test/container-images:
+    ensure: latest
     url: 'https://git.psi.ch/linux-infra/container_images.git'
     revision: 'main'
 ```
 
-If the `revision` is missing, it will initialize the checkout with the default branch, but after leave the checkout as is and not try to ensure that it is on given revision (branch, tag or commit).
+If the `ensure` is missing, it will initialize the checkout with the default branch, but afterwards leave the checkout as is and not try to ensure that it is on a given revision (branch, tag or commit).
+
+Possible values for `ensure` are: present, bare, mirror, absent, latest .
+
+More details on the possible values of ensure you can find in [this documentation](https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/vcsrepo/reference#ensure)
 
 Note that submodules are automatically initialized.