doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-read-tree.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
index 501f2ec375d6909d134e290a4a6a7c46c139951e..5fa8bab64c2d0bb80f88ace023b5eafc898b05f1 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-read-tree.txt
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ OPTIONS
        located in.
 
 --[no-]recurse-submodules::
-       Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
+       Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all active
        submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject by
        calling read-tree recursively, also setting the submodules' HEAD to be
        detached at that commit.