Re: [PATCH] Clarify role of init command in git-submodules documentation

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also sprach Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007.08.22.1030 +0200]:
> > > I suppose this is implicit in the git submodule man page,
> > > but this is only true if you actually want to use git submodule to
> > > work with the submodules.
> >
> I meant that the rest of my sentence could probably be
> implicitly understood.

Ah. Okay, well, I'd say since this is the git-submodule manpage, we
can assume that they want to work with git-submodule.

> > Is it? I tried this and after cloning a repo with submodules, it
> > created the submodule directories alright, but it did not
> > actually check them out/populate them, so they were empty.
> 
> Some people have been doing this manually or have homegrown
> scripts. Not that you should mention those options here.

Ok.

> > You're missing something like "... unless the submodule is already
> > registered, in which case it won't be overwritten", right?
> 
> Something like that, yes.

Consider it done. Patch forthcoming, though probably not tonight,
I also want to give others more time to comment.

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