diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
index 192b275cc5..25df7278c0 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/chapter.xml
@@ -2639,7 +2639,7 @@ v0.7.3-0-gc66c71d</screen>
 	    linkend="porting-master-sites-n"/>.</para>
 
 	<para>When fetching multiple files from GitHub, sometimes the
-	  default distribution file is not required.  To disable
+	  default distribution file is not fetched from GitHub.  To disable
 	  fetching the default distribution, set:</para>
 
 	<programlisting>USE_GITHUB=	nodefault</programlisting>