diff --git a/doc/forum/Checking_that_everything_is_committed.mdwn b/doc/forum/Checking_that_everything_is_committed.mdwn
index 7b2e06f1a3..7f492fc5ab 100644
--- a/doc/forum/Checking_that_everything_is_committed.mdwn
+++ b/doc/forum/Checking_that_everything_is_committed.mdwn
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ The call to git-diff-files(1) fails in a v7 repo with output like this (if I dro
     :100644 100644 f8e47b9532ea17ac825c39bddc35dbd68f120a46 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M	dists/stretch/main/binary-amd64/Packages
     :100644 100644 f8e47b9532ea17ac825c39bddc35dbd68f120a46 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 M	dists/stretch/main/binary-i386/Packages
 
+I note that the listed files are empty.
+
 Is there a git-annex command that I can run to normalise my repo so that git-diff-files(1) produces no output?  Or does it not make sense to run git-diff-files(1) in a v7 repo?
 
 Thanks.