diff --git a/connected.h b/connected.h
index e4c961817d3..8d5a6b3ad6f 100644
--- a/connected.h
+++ b/connected.h
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ struct check_connected_options {
 #define CHECK_CONNECTED_INIT { 0 }
 
 /*
- * Make sure that our object store has all the commits necessary to
- * connect the ancestry chain to some of our existing refs, and all
- * the trees and blobs that these commits use.
+ * Make sure that all given objects and all objects reachable from them
+ * either exist in our object store or (if the repository is a partial
+ * clone) are promised to be available.
  *
  * Return 0 if Ok, non zero otherwise (i.e. some missing objects)
  *