[PATCH] glossary: add "remote", "submodule", "superproject"

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Noticed-by: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@xxxxxxx>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index bf383c2..23ab692 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
@@ -469,6 +469,11 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`.
 	<<def_push,push>> to describe the mapping between remote
 	<<def_ref,ref>> and local ref.
 
+[[def_remote]]remote repository::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> which is used to track the same
+	project but resides somewhere else. To communicate with remotes,
+	see <<def_fetch,fetch>> or <<def_push,push>>.
+
 [[def_remote_tracking_branch]]remote-tracking branch::
 	A <<def_ref,ref>> that is used to follow changes from another
 	<<def_repository,repository>>. It typically looks like
@@ -515,6 +520,18 @@ The most notable example is `HEAD`.
 	is created by giving the `--depth` option to linkgit:git-clone[1], and
 	its history can be later deepened with linkgit:git-fetch[1].
 
+[[def_submodule]]submodule::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> that holds the history of a
+	separate project inside another repository (the latter of
+	which is called <<def_superproject, superproject>>). The
+	containing superproject knows about the names of (but does
+	not hold copies of) commit objects of the contained submodules.
+
+[[def_superproject]]superproject::
+	A <<def_repository,repository>> that references other repositories
+	inside itself as <<def_submodule,submodules>>. The superproject
+	tracks only the remote and the name of the submodule.
+
 [[def_symref]]symref::
 	Symbolic reference: instead of containing the <<def_SHA1,SHA-1>>
 	id itself, it is of the format 'ref: refs/some/thing' and when
-- 
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