diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
index 3c40ffe672c7..ef0640eb58bf 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
@@ -3351,8 +3351,6 @@ public void addIndexesReaderMerge(MergePolicy.OneMerge merge) throws IOException
         new IOContext(
             new MergeInfo(Math.toIntExact(numDocs), -1, false, UNBOUNDED_MAX_MERGE_SEGMENTS));
 
-    // TODO: somehow we should fix this merge so it's
-    // abortable so that IW.close(false) is able to stop it
     TrackingDirectoryWrapper trackingDir = new TrackingDirectoryWrapper(mergeDirectory);
     Codec codec = config.getCodec();
     // We set the min version to null for now, it will be set later by SegmentMerger
diff --git a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestAddIndexes.java b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestAddIndexes.java
index fb51f9a2634c..7b33e5a30c09 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestAddIndexes.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/test/org/apache/lucene/index/TestAddIndexes.java
@@ -803,8 +803,7 @@ public MergeSpecification findMerges(List<CodecReader> readers) throws IOExcepti
     assertThrows(RuntimeException.class, () -> TestUtil.addIndexesSlowly(c.destWriter, c.readers));
     c.destWriter.commit();
 
-    // verify no docs got added and all interim files from successful merges have been deleted from
-    // dir
+    // verify no docs got added and all interim files from successful merges have been deleted
     try (IndexReader reader = DirectoryReader.open(c.destDir)) {
       assertEquals(c.INIT_DOCS, reader.numDocs());
     }