diff --git a/doc/go1.html b/doc/go1.html
index b76ef7ab474..d09b1d398f4 100644
--- a/doc/go1.html
+++ b/doc/go1.html
@@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ Code that uses the other packages (there should be almost zero) will need to be
 <h3 id="subrepo">Packages moving to subrepositories</h3>
 
 <p>
-Go 1 has moved a number of packages into sub-repositories of
+Go 1 has moved a number of packages into other repositories, usually sub-repositories of
 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go/">the main Go repository</a>.
 This table lists the old and new import paths:
 
diff --git a/doc/go1.tmpl b/doc/go1.tmpl
index 303b79d555e..0f89e9d5ba7 100644
--- a/doc/go1.tmpl
+++ b/doc/go1.tmpl
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ Code that uses the other packages (there should be almost zero) will need to be
 <h3 id="subrepo">Packages moving to subrepositories</h3>
 
 <p>
-Go 1 has moved a number of packages into sub-repositories of
+Go 1 has moved a number of packages into other repositories, usually sub-repositories of
 <a href="http://code.google.com/p/go/">the main Go repository</a>.
 This table lists the old and new import paths: