diff --git a/builtin-checkout-index.c b/builtin-checkout-index.c
index 90f8523..55b7aaf 100644
--- a/builtin-checkout-index.c
+++ b/builtin-checkout-index.c
@@ -5,26 +5,26 @@
  *
  * Careful: order of argument flags does matter. For example,
  *
- *	git-checkout-index -a -f file.c
+ *	git checkout-index -a -f file.c
  *
  * Will first check out all files listed in the cache (but not
  * overwrite any old ones), and then force-checkout "file.c" a
  * second time (ie that one _will_ overwrite any old contents
  * with the same filename).
  *
- * Also, just doing "git-checkout-index" does nothing. You probably
- * meant "git-checkout-index -a". And if you want to force it, you
- * want "git-checkout-index -f -a".
+ * Also, just doing "git checkout-index" does nothing. You probably
+ * meant "git checkout-index -a". And if you want to force it, you
+ * want "git checkout-index -f -a".
  *
  * Intuitiveness is not the goal here. Repeatability is. The
  * reason for the "no arguments means no work" thing is that
  * from scripts you are supposed to be able to do things like
  *
- *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git-checkout-index -f --
+ *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | xargs -0 git checkout-index -f --
  *
  * or:
  *
- *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git-checkout-index -f -z --stdin
+ *	find . -name '*.h' -print0 | git checkout-index -f -z --stdin
  *
  * which will force all existing *.h files to be replaced with
  * their cached copies. If an empty command line implied "all",
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
 	}
 
 	if (!state.quiet) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "git-checkout-index: %s ", name);
+		fprintf(stderr, "git checkout-index: %s ", name);
 		if (!has_same_name)
 			fprintf(stderr, "is not in the cache");
 		else if (checkout_stage)
diff --git a/builtin-commit-tree.c b/builtin-commit-tree.c
index 291c43c..9b84c48 100644
--- a/builtin-commit-tree.c
+++ b/builtin-commit-tree.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 		    typename(expect));
 }
 
-static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git-commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog";
+static const char commit_tree_usage[] = "git commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog";
 
 static void new_parent(struct commit *parent, struct commit_list **parents_p)
 {
diff --git a/builtin-fetch-pack.c b/builtin-fetch-pack.c
index 6b37281..85509f5 100644
--- a/builtin-fetch-pack.c
+++ b/builtin-fetch-pack.c
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@
 	if (!ret && nr_heads) {
 		/* If the heads to pull were given, we should have
 		 * consumed all of them by matching the remote.
-		 * Otherwise, 'git-fetch remote no-such-ref' would
+		 * Otherwise, 'git fetch remote no-such-ref' would
 		 * silently succeed without issuing an error.
 		 */
 		for (i = 0; i < nr_heads; i++)
diff --git a/builtin-fetch.c b/builtin-fetch.c
index 7eec4a0..ee93d3a 100644
--- a/builtin-fetch.c
+++ b/builtin-fetch.c
@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@
 		/*
 		 * Not fetched to a tracking branch?  We need to fetch
 		 * it anyway to allow this branch's "branch.$name.merge"
-		 * to be honored by git-pull, but we do not have to
+		 * to be honored by 'git pull', but we do not have to
 		 * fail if branch.$name.merge is misconfigured to point
 		 * at a nonexisting branch.  If we were indeed called by
-		 * git-pull, it will notice the misconfiguration because
+		 * 'git pull', it will notice the misconfiguration because
 		 * there is no entry in the resulting FETCH_HEAD marked
 		 * for merging.
 		 */
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
  * The refs we are going to fetch are in to_fetch (nr_heads in
  * total).  If running
  *
- *  $ git-rev-list --objects to_fetch[0] to_fetch[1] ... --not --all
+ *  $ git rev-list --objects to_fetch[0] to_fetch[1] ... --not --all
  *
  * does not error out, that means everything reachable from the
  * refs we are going to fetch exists and is connected to some of
diff --git a/builtin-http-fetch.c b/builtin-http-fetch.c
index 3a06248..03f34d7 100644
--- a/builtin-http-fetch.c
+++ b/builtin-http-fetch.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 		arg++;
 	}
 	if (argc < arg + 2 - commits_on_stdin) {
-		usage("git-http-fetch [-c] [-t] [-a] [-v] [--recover] [-w ref] [--stdin] commit-id url");
+		usage("git http-fetch [-c] [-t] [-a] [-v] [--recover] [-w ref] [--stdin] commit-id url");
 		return 1;
 	}
 	if (commits_on_stdin) {
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
 		fprintf(stderr,
 "Some loose object were found to be corrupt, but they might be just\n"
 "a false '404 Not Found' error message sent with incorrect HTTP\n"
-"status code.  Suggest running git-fsck.\n");
+"status code.  Suggest running 'git fsck'.\n");
 	}
 
 	walker_free(walker);