diff --git a/HACKING.pending b/HACKING.pending
index 25ea0bd..5e0defd 100644
--- a/HACKING.pending
+++ b/HACKING.pending
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 Tom Henderson of Boeing has created a repository to work on
 multi-topology routing support for OSPF.  Work on this repository
-takes place on the branch mtr, which has a branch poing of 0.99.17
+takes place on the branch mtr, which has a branch point of 0.99.17
 
 * posted patches