diff -r af44c7a1e55e -r 59af0b21ec31 mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Mon Jul 28 19:20:13 2014 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jul 30 00:13:59 2014 +0900
@@ -5696,7 +5696,7 @@
     ('', 'remove', None, _('remove a tag')),
     # -l/--local is already there, commitopts cannot be used
     ('e', 'edit', None, _('edit commit message')),
-    ('m', 'message', '', _('use <text> as commit message'), _('TEXT')),
+    ('m', 'message', '', _('use text as commit message'), _('TEXT')),
     ] + commitopts2,
     _('[-f] [-l] [-m TEXT] [-d DATE] [-u USER] [-r REV] NAME...'))
 def tag(ui, repo, name1, *names, **opts):