diff --git a/doc/git.rst b/doc/git.rst
index cde8bd25e99..b2e24db9036 100644
--- a/doc/git.rst
+++ b/doc/git.rst
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Basic development workflow
 * update your remotes with ``git fetch --all``
 * create your development branch with ``git checkout -b <branch_name>
   <source_branch>``. For instance if you wanted to add support for full-text
-  search in trunk you could use ``git checkout -b trunk-fts-xxx odoo/trunk``
+  search in trunk you could use ``git checkout -b trunk-fts-xxx odoo/master``
 * do your changes, stage them with ``git add`` and commit them with ``git
   commit``
 * if your branch is long-lived, you may want to update it to its parent