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[PATCH] docs: move submodule section

From: Matt Kraai <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:55:17
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

293ab15e ("submodule: teach rm to remove submodules unless they
contain a git directory", 2012-09-26) inserted the "Submodules"
section between a sentence describing a command and the command.  Move
the "Submodules" section further down.

Signed-off-by: Matt Kraai <redacted>
---
 Documentation/git-rm.txt |   30 +++++++++++++++---------------
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-rm.txt b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
index 882cb11..262436b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-rm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-rm.txt
@@ -107,21 +107,6 @@ as well as modifications of existing paths.
 Typically you would first remove all tracked files from the working
 tree using this command:
 
-Submodules
-~~~~~~~~~~
-Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned
-with a git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work
-tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the
-superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it)
-still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced
-or not - to protect the submodule's history.
-
-A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as
-recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked
-files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree.
-Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work
-tree from being removed.
-
 ----------------
 git ls-files -z | xargs -0 rm -f
 ----------------
@@ -149,6 +134,21 @@ use the following command:
 git diff --name-only --diff-filter=D -z | xargs -0 git rm --cached
 ----------------
 
+Submodules
+~~~~~~~~~~
+Only submodules using a gitfile (which means they were cloned
+with a git version 1.7.8 or newer) will be removed from the work
+tree, as their repository lives inside the .git directory of the
+superproject. If a submodule (or one of those nested inside it)
+still uses a .git directory, `git rm` will fail - no matter if forced
+or not - to protect the submodule's history.
+
+A submodule is considered up-to-date when the HEAD is the same as
+recorded in the index, no tracked files are modified and no untracked
+files that aren't ignored are present in the submodules work tree.
+Ignored files are deemed expendable and won't stop a submodule's work
+tree from being removed.
+
 EXAMPLES
 --------
 `git rm Documentation/\*.txt`::
-- 
1.7.2.5
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