diff --git a/content/search-github/searching-on-github/finding-files-on-github.md b/content/search-github/searching-on-github/finding-files-on-github.md
index a5acc39c90a7..9a5a39bf5a92 100644
--- a/content/search-github/searching-on-github/finding-files-on-github.md
+++ b/content/search-github/searching-on-github/finding-files-on-github.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ topics:
 
 ## Customizing excluded files
 
-By default, file finder results do not include files in the following directories if they exist at your repository root:
+By default, file finder results do not include files in the following directories:
 
 * `.git`
 * `.hg`