diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index ae21ef239e..94c09e529e 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ Creating a new repository from scratch is very easy:
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 $ mkdir project
 $ cd project
-$ git init-db
+$ git init
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 If you have some initial content (say, a tarball):
@@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ If you have some initial content (say, a tarball):
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 $ tar -xzvf project.tar.gz
 $ cd project
-$ git init-db
+$ git init
 $ git add . # include everything below ./ in the first commit:
 $ git commit
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