diff --git a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.txt b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.txt
index 979af493..7c523e2d 100644
--- a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.txt
+++ b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ libalpm provides the ability to specify hooks to run before or after
 transactions based on the packages and/or files being modified.  Hooks consist
 of a single '[Action]' section describing the action to be run and one or more
 '[Trigger]' section describing which transactions it should be run for. Hook
-file names are required to have the suffix ".hook".
+file names are required to have the suffix ".hook".  Hooks are run in
+alphabetical order of their file name.
 
 TRIGGERS
 --------