diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/committing-code.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/committing-code.txt
index 5bf45b49d84..05eb1f91caf 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing/committing-code.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/committing-code.txt
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ Django's Git repository:
     Note that the Trac integration doesn't know anything about pull requests.
     So if you try to close a pull request with the phrase "closes #400" in your
     commit message, GitHub will close the pull request, but the Trac plugin
-    will also close the same numbered ticket in Trac.
+    will not close the same numbered ticket in Trac.
 
 .. _Trac plugin: https://github.com/trac-hacks/trac-github