diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2d4ffc1c8701..bb78e95b7562 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: eda890af7959a79ab10a7a8ae979dadcdba41c58
+refs/heads/master: 6e5a5420b7cdac356efbdc7832e90a805670b889
diff --git a/trunk/init/Kconfig b/trunk/init/Kconfig
index b170aa1d43bd..29d9e47ee0da 100644
--- a/trunk/init/Kconfig
+++ b/trunk/init/Kconfig
@@ -80,16 +80,20 @@ config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
 	default y
 	help
 	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
-	  release tree by looking for git tags that
-	  belong to the current top of tree revision.
+	  release tree by looking for git tags that belong to the current
+	  top of tree revision.
 
 	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
-	  if a git based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
+	  if a git-based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
 	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
-	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION.
 
-	  Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
-	  the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+	  (The actual string used here is the first eight characters produced
+	  by running the command:
+
+	    $ git rev-parse --verify HEAD
+
+	  which is done within the script "scripts/setlocalversion".)
 
 config SWAP
 	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"