Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-submodule.txt: Add Description section

[Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> +Submodules are a special kind of tree entries which do not refer to a blob or
> +a directory, but to a particular tree in another repository (living at a given
> +URL). 

Better to say what a submodule is, rather than what it isn't:

"Submodules are a special kind of tree entries which refer to a 
particular tree in another repository ..."

Also, I think you should make the following explicit:

"A submodule is visible as subdirectory in the working directory.
However, the submodule is not part of the main repository.
This is a differene to "remotes". In remotes only the contents of 
other repositories is tracked, but their content is not visible in the
working directory."

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