From 047ba83dabe492af938104fe0058597f67a672be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arthur Richard <arthur.richard2299@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 12:14:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve pytest.exit docs (#11698)

Fixes #11695
---
 AUTHORS                        | 1 +
 doc/en/reference/reference.rst | 2 +-
 src/_pytest/outcomes.py        | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 669ec537e..bb273edcc 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Ariel Pillemer
 Armin Rigo
 Aron Coyle
 Aron Curzon
+Arthur Richard
 Ashish Kurmi
 Aviral Verma
 Aviv Palivoda
diff --git a/doc/en/reference/reference.rst b/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
index d6f942ad0..3054109ba 100644
--- a/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
+++ b/doc/en/reference/reference.rst
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ pytest.xfail
 pytest.exit
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-.. autofunction:: pytest.exit(reason, [returncode=False, msg=None])
+.. autofunction:: pytest.exit(reason, [returncode=None, msg=None])
 
 pytest.main
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/src/_pytest/outcomes.py b/src/_pytest/outcomes.py
index a8984c5b9..0f64f91d9 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/outcomes.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/outcomes.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def exit(
         only because `msg` is deprecated.
 
     :param returncode:
-        Return code to be used when exiting pytest.
+        Return code to be used when exiting pytest. None means the same as ``0`` (no error), same as :func:`sys.exit`.
 
     :param msg:
         Same as ``reason``, but deprecated. Will be removed in a future version, use ``reason`` instead.