diff --git a/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst b/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst
index c81e43ba4..538f0ef89 100644
--- a/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst
+++ b/docs/html/reference/pip_install.rst
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ treated as a comment.
 A line ending in an unescaped ``\`` is treated as a line continuation
 and the newline following it is effectively ignored.
 
-Comments are stripped *before* line continuations are processed.
+Comments are stripped *after* line continuations are processed.
 
 To interpret the requirements file in UTF-8 format add a comment
 ``# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-`` to the first or second line of the file.
diff --git a/news/f7e1f2af-8382-450d-aa7e-9357fcd7c645.trivial b/news/f7e1f2af-8382-450d-aa7e-9357fcd7c645.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb