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 and Compression Data Format.
 
 You will need to first synchronize gflags and gtest by running
-`git submodule init --update --recursive`.
+`git submodule update --init --recursive`.
 
 A library with a simple API is included, as well as a command-line executable
 that can apply the encoder and decoder to source, target, and delta files.