diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index f7d3de48f0..7d86809844 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Merge tracking in Subversion is lacking and doing branched development
 with Subversion is cumbersome as a result.  git-svn completely forgoes
 any automated merge/branch tracking on the Subversion side and leaves it
 entirely up to the user on the git side.  It's simply not worth it to do
-a useful translation when the the original signal is weak.
+a useful translation when the original signal is weak.
 
 TRACKING MULTIPLE REPOSITORIES OR BRANCHES
 ------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b6be5dfc35..8c3fd25cc3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ all:
 # Define NO_SYMLINK_HEAD if you never want .git/HEAD to be a symbolic link.
 # Enable it on Windows.  By default, symrefs are still used.
 #
-# Define NO_SVN_TESTS if you want to skip time-consuming SVN interopability
+# Define NO_SVN_TESTS if you want to skip time-consuming SVN interoperability
 # tests.  These tests take up a significant amount of the total test time
 # but are not needed unless you plan to talk to SVN repos.
 #