diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
index 5ec65cebe2..1652ab3e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
@@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ running
 $ git tag stable-1 1b2e1d63ff
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-You can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
+you can use `stable-1` to refer to the commit 1b2e1d63ff.
 
 This creates a "lightweight" tag.  If you would also like to include a
 comment with the tag, and possibly sign it cryptographically, then you