diff --git a/Documentation/tutorial.txt b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
index ad48bb88b6..6e100dbb60 100644
--- a/Documentation/tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/tutorial.txt
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ git commit -m 'Some work.' hello
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 Here, we just added another line to `hello`, and we used a shorthand for
-both going a `git-update-index hello` and `git commit` by just giving the
+doing both `git-update-index hello` and `git commit` by just giving the
 filename directly to `git commit`. The `-m` flag is to give the
 commit log message from the command line.