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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Project to run the whole ggtracker stack in vagrant
 
 ### Running
  * Make sure you have vagrant+virtualbox installed on your computer
- * Run `git submodule update --init --remote --merge --recursive` to pull the latest version of each submodule
+ * Run `git submodule update --init --remote --recursive` to pull the latest version of each submodule
  * Run `vagrant up` to create the virtual box. This will download all required packages and go through the installation process for ggtracker and ESDB (~15 minutes; go make yourself a sandwich)
  * Run `vagrant ssh` to ssh into the vagrant box
  * Make a note of your vagrant IP: In the text it prints out upon login it says IP address for eth1: 172.28.128.3 (potentially some other ip)