diff --git a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
index f880d21dfb..c0b95256cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitcore-tutorial.txt
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ to it.
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 If you make the decision to start your new branch at some
 other point in the history than the current `HEAD`, you can do so by
-just telling 'git checkout' what the base of the checkout would be.
+just telling 'git switch' what the base of the checkout would be.
 In other words, if you have an earlier tag or branch, you'd just do
 
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