diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
index fa6a756123..a158428eb9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Tag Format
 A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input,
 has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
 
-  object <sha1>
+  object <hash>
   type <typename>
   tag <tagname>
   tagger <tagger>