diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/IndexDiff.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/IndexDiff.java
index f532cdcf1..6b2af0763 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/IndexDiff.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/lib/IndexDiff.java
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ public class IndexDiff {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * @return list of files on modified on disk relative to the index
+	 * @return list of files that are not ignored, and not in the index.
 	 */
 	public Set<String> getUntracked() {
 		return untracked;