diff --git a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
index 0216c18ef8..432e159d95 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-credential-cache.txt
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ $ git push http://example.com/repo.git
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 You can provide options via the credential.helper configuration
-variable (this example drops the cache time to 5 minutes):
+variable (this example increases the cache time to 1 hour):
 
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-$ git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=300'
+$ git config credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
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