On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:46 PM, Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaartic.sivaraam@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt b/Documentation/gitsubmodules.txt > @@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ The configuration of submodules > - * The command line for those commands that support taking submodule specs. > - Most commands have a boolean flag '--recurse-submodules' whether to > - recurse into submodules. Examples are `ls-files` or `checkout`. > + * The command line for those commands that support taking submodule > + specifications. Most commands have a boolean flag '--recurse-submodules > + whether to recurse into submodules. Examples are `ls-files` or `checkout`. Your change loses the closing quote on --recurse-submodules. Also, since you're touching this, it wouldn't hurt to address the grammatical shortcoming(s), as well. To wit: Something is missing between "--recurse-submodules" and "whether".