Just an extra word that clearly didn't belong.
# digit when we reach particularly major milestones of usability.
#
# Between releases, (such as when compiling notmuch from the git
-# repository), we let git to append identification of the actual
-# commit.
+# repository), we let git append identification of the actual commit.
PACKAGE=notmuch
VERSION:=$(shell if [ -f version ]; then cat version; else git describe --match '[0-9].[0-9]*'; fi)