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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-describe.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-describe.txt b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
index c4dbc2ae3..59a6fd17a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-describe.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-describe.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
Automatically implies --tags.
--abbrev=<n>::
- Instead of using the default 8 hexadecimal digits as the
+ Instead of using the default 7 hexadecimal digits as the
abbreviated object name, use <n> digits.
--candidates=<n>::