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[PATCH] glossary: add "remote" and "submodule"

From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:05:01
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

Noticed-by: Philip Oakley [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted>
---
 Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt
index bf383c2..e303135 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 +520,11 @@ 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>> inside another repository. The two
+	repositories have different history, though the outer repository
+	knows the commit of the inner repository.
+
 [[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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