diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
index 3f8f1d56..e8281816 100644
--- a/Makefile.local
+++ b/Makefile.local
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@
 # digit when we reach particularly major milestones of usability.
 #
 # Between releases, (such as when compiling notmuch from the git
-# repository), we let git to append identification of the actual
-# commit.
+# repository), we let git append identification of the actual commit.
 PACKAGE=notmuch
 VERSION:=$(shell if [ -f version ]; then cat version; else git describe --match '[0-9].[0-9]*'; fi)