diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index ec5896e8731..d4b3dd490c5 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -5478,7 +5478,7 @@ BACKUPNAME is the backup file name, which is the old file renamed."
 
 (defvar file-name-version-regexp
   "\\(?:~\\|\\.~[-[:alnum:]:#@^._]+\\(?:~[[:digit:]]+\\)?~\\)"
-  ;; The last ~[[:digit]]+ matches relative versions in git,
+  ;; The last ~[[:digit:]]+ matches relative versions in git,
   ;; e.g. `foo.js.~HEAD~1~'.
   "Regular expression matching the backup/version part of a file name.
 Used by `file-name-sans-versions'.")