Merge branch 'ap/svn'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index 41f9f635665b82806350c87de5117e1cfa806c1a..0668f295eee14facf0f9c4dd6ed2830cb6a348f8 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ 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] init [--] [<path>...]
+'git-submodule' [--quiet] update [--init] [--] [<path>...]
 'git-submodule' [--quiet] summary [--summary-limit <n>] [commit] [--] [<path>...]
 
 
@@ -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
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ OPTIONS
 -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 unlimted
+       Giving 0 will disable the summary; a negative number means unlimited
        (the default). This limit only applies to modified submodules. The
        size is always limited to 1 for added/deleted/typechanged submodules.