diff --git a/help/urls.txt b/help/urls.txt
--- a/help/urls.txt
+++ b/help/urls.txt
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ These URLs can all be stored in your hgr
   ...
 
 You can then use the alias for any command that uses a URL (for
-example 'hg pull alias1' would pull from the 'alias1' path).
+example 'hg pull alias1' will be treated as 'hg pull URL1').
 
 Two path aliases are special because they are used as defaults when
 you do not provide the URL to a command:
diff --git a/mercurial/commands.py b/mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py
@@ -1718,7 +1718,8 @@ def identify(ui, repo, source=None,
 def import_(ui, repo, patch1, *patches, **opts):
     """import an ordered set of patches
 
-    Import a list of patches and commit them individually.
+    Import a list of patches and commit them individually (unless
+    --no-commit is specified).
 
     If there are outstanding changes in the working directory, import
     will abort unless given the -f/--force flag.