diff -r 16d2d093d1dd -r 3101e30fd762 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jun 11 13:51:57 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jun 11 11:00:01 2008 +0200
@@ -3319,7 +3319,7 @@
          _('hg unbundle [-u] FILE...')),
     "^update|up|checkout|co":
         (update,
-         [('C', 'clean', None, _('overwrite locally modified files')),
+         [('C', 'clean', None, _('overwrite locally modified files (no backup)')),
           ('d', 'date', '', _('tipmost revision matching date')),
           ('r', 'rev', '', _('revision'))],
          _('hg update [-C] [-d DATE] [[-r] REV]')),