Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-submodule.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 6ffd896fbc78b783a7e00ed462f879cbff29d758..c1deec98d1540666d2cb5f5aec0bb6d264700ded 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch] [--] <repository> [<path>]
-'git-submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...]
-'git-submodule' [--quiet] [init|update] [--] [<path>...]
-'git-submodule' [--quiet] summary [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] add [-b branch] [--] <repository> [<path>]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--] [<path>...]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] summary [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
 
 
 COMMANDS
@@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ update::
        Update the registered submodules, i.e. clone missing submodules and
        checkout the commit specified in the index of the containing repository.
        This will make the submodules HEAD be detached.
++
+If the submodule is not yet initialized, and you just want to use the
+setting as stored in .gitmodules, you can automatically initialize the
+submodule with the --init option.
 
 summary::
        Show commit summary between the given commit (defaults to HEAD) and
@@ -56,10 +61,12 @@ summary::
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
--q, --quiet::
+-q::
+--quiet::
        Only print error messages.
 
--b, --branch::
+-b::
+--branch::
        Branch of repository to add as submodule.
 
 --cached::
@@ -67,7 +74,8 @@ OPTIONS
        commands typically use the commit found in the submodule HEAD, but
        with this option, the commit stored in the index is used instead.
 
--n, --summary-limit::
+-n::
+--summary-limit::
        This option is only valid for the summary command.
        Limit the summary size (number of commits shown in total).
        Giving 0 will disable the summary; a negative number means unlimited
@@ -93,4 +101,4 @@ Written by Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite