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-rw-r--r--include/git2/ignore.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/git2/ignore.h b/include/git2/ignore.h
index d0c1877a8..f5143f3ad 100644
--- a/include/git2/ignore.h
+++ b/include/git2/ignore.h
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ GIT_EXTERN(int) git_ignore_clear_internal_rules(
* given file. This indicates if the file would be ignored regardless of
* whether the file is already in the index or committed to the repository.
*
- * One way to think of this is if you were to do "git add ." on the
- * directory containing the file, would it be added or not?
+ * One way to think of this is if you were to do "git check-ignore --no-index"
+ * on the given file, would it be shown or not?
*
* @param ignored boolean returning 0 if the file is not ignored, 1 if it is
* @param repo a repository object