diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index fb47a88ae..ad9493ecd 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ package_dir = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
 
 __display_version__ = __version__  # used for command line version
 if __version__.endswith('+'):
-    # try to find out the changeset hash if checked out from hg, and append
+    # try to find out the commit hash if checked out from git, and append
     # it to __version__ (since we use this value from setup.py, it gets
     # automatically propagated to an installed copy as well)
     __display_version__ = __version__