diff --git a/mercurial/help/config.txt b/mercurial/help/config.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/config.txt
+++ b/mercurial/help/config.txt
@@ -1001,9 +1001,8 @@ profiling is done using lsprof.
     Default: 30.
 
 ``nested``
-    Show at most this number of lines of drill-down info in a tree structure
-    after each main entry. This can help explain the difference between Total
-    and Inline.
+    Show at most this number of lines of drill-down info after each main entry.
+    This can help explain the difference between Total and Inline.
     Specific to the ``ls`` instrumenting profiler.
     Default: 5.
 
diff --git a/mercurial/lsprof.py b/mercurial/lsprof.py
--- a/mercurial/lsprof.py
+++ b/mercurial/lsprof.py
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ class Stats(object):
             ccount = 0
             if climit and e.calls:
                 for se in e.calls:
-                    file.write(cols % ("+%s" % se.callcount, se.reccallcount,
+                    file.write(cols % (se.callcount, se.reccallcount,
                                        se.totaltime, se.inlinetime,
-                                       "+%s" % label(se.code)))
+                                       "    %s" % label(se.code)))
                     count += 1
                     ccount += 1
                     if limit is not None and count == limit: