submodule: document default behavior

submodule's default behavior wasn't documented in both git-submodule.txt
and in the usage text of git-submodule. Document the default behavior
similar to how git-remote does it.

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
index ba3c4df550acfeb04a0a6b753a778816f031492c..2794e2978021c08b613b07aebf36090c7943fe09 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-submodule.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ git-submodule - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
+'git submodule' [--quiet] [--cached]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] add [<options>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
 'git submodule' [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
@@ -28,6 +29,9 @@ For more information about submodules, see linkgit:gitsubmodules[7].
 
 COMMANDS
 --------
+With no arguments, shows the status of existing submodules.  Several
+subcommands are available to perform operations on the submodules.
+
 add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--depth <depth>] [--] <repository> [<path>]::
        Add the given repository as a submodule at the given path
        to the changeset to be committed next to the current

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index b5f2beee60ab59a04b5b236da8df39403009db1b..514ede259660d387fd392b950facc706f7c4d5e7 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2007 Lars Hjemli
 
 dashless=$(basename "$0" | sed -e 's/-/ /')
-USAGE="[--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
+USAGE="[--quiet] [--cached]
+   or: $dashless [--quiet] add [-b <branch>] [-f|--force] [--name <name>] [--reference <repository>] [--] <repository> [<path>]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] status [--cached] [--recursive] [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] init [--] [<path>...]
    or: $dashless [--quiet] deinit [-f|--force] (--all| [--] <path>...)