diff --git a/components/dotenv.rst b/components/dotenv.rst
index acd67399a9c..333e73b6ec7 100644
--- a/components/dotenv.rst
+++ b/components/dotenv.rst
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ environments by passing them as additional arguments to ``Dotenv::loadEnv()``
 
     The ``Dotenv::loadEnv()`` method was introduced in Symfony 4.2.
 
-You should never store a ``.env`` file in your code repository as it might
-contain sensitive information; create a ``.env.dist`` file (or multiple
+You should never store a ``.env.local`` file in your code repository as it might
+contain sensitive information; create a ``.env`` file (or multiple
 environment-specific ones as shown above) with sensible defaults instead.
 
 .. note::