diff -r 170818dad56b -r 92ee960a928d mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Mon May 19 10:23:47 2008 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Thu May 22 13:29:47 2008 +0200
@@ -2081,7 +2081,7 @@
 
     By default, push will refuse to run if it detects the result would
     increase the number of remote heads. This generally indicates the
-    the client has forgotten to sync and merge before pushing.
+    the client has forgotten to pull and merge before pushing.
 
     Valid URLs are of the form:
 
@@ -2091,7 +2091,8 @@
       https://[user@]host[:port]/[path]
 
     An optional identifier after # indicates a particular branch, tag,
-    or changeset to push.
+    or changeset to push. If -r is used, the named changeset and all its
+    ancestors will be pushed to the remote repository.
 
     Look at the help text for the pull command for important details
     about ssh:// URLs.