scripts/setlocalversion: update comment

[cascardo/linux.git] / scripts / setlocalversion

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index e90a91c..dc54b19 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -160,8 +160,10 @@ if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then
        # full scm version string
        res="$res$(scm_version)"
 else
-       # apped a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean tagged
-       # state and  LOCALVERSION= is not specified
+       # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
+       # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
+       # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
+       # LOCALVERSION= is not specified
        if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
                scm=$(scm_version --short)
                res="$res${scm:++}"