--- a/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt	Wed Oct 27 12:12:51 2010 -0200
+++ b/mercurial/help/subrepos.txt	Wed Oct 27 12:13:49 2010 -0200
@@ -62,9 +62,8 @@
 Deleting a Subrepository
 ------------------------
 
-To remove a subrepo from the parent repository, delete its reference
-from ``.hgsub``. Then, the subrepo tree will show up as a set of
-unknown files in :hg:`status`, and you can delete the files.
+To remove a subrepository from the parent repository, delete its
+reference from ``.hgsub``, then remove its files.
 
 Interaction with Mercurial Commands
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