diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index b64c55f3df8..25695fe77e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -1682,7 +1682,7 @@ automatically set the default remote branch to pull from at the time
 that a branch is created:
 
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-$ git checkout --track -b origin/maint maint
+$ git checkout --track -b maint origin/maint
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 In addition to saving you keystrokes, "git pull" also helps you by