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-rw-r--r--Documentation/user-manual.txt8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index c5641af190..00256ca57c 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -3458,7 +3458,7 @@ $ cd super
$ git init
$ for i in a b c d
do
- git submodule add ~/git/$i
+ git submodule add ~/git/$i $i
done
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@@ -3471,10 +3471,10 @@ $ ls -a
. .. .git .gitmodules a b c d
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-The `git-submodule add` command does a couple of things:
+The `git-submodule add <repo> <path>` command does a couple of things:
-- It clones the submodule under the current directory and by default checks out
- the master branch.
+- It clones the submodule from <repo> to the given <path> under the
+ current directory and by default checks out the master branch.
- It adds the submodule's clone path to the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file and
adds this file to the index, ready to be committed.
- It adds the submodule's current commit ID to the index, ready to be