# HG changeset patch
# User Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
# Date 2010-07-15 12:40:17
# Node ID 7ecf4a082c5fadb048e3df3a80dedc118509bc72
# Parent  324bad1dc2305dd476e286f4817efa8c050fafd7

discovery: clarify comment

diff --git a/mercurial/discovery.py b/mercurial/discovery.py
--- a/mercurial/discovery.py
+++ b/mercurial/discovery.py
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ def findcommonincoming(repo, remote, bas
     exist on the remote side and that no child of a node of base exists
     in both remote and repo.
     Furthermore base will be updated to include the nodes that exists
-    in repo and remote but no children exists in repo and remote.
+    in repo and remote but no children exists in both repo and remote.
+    In other words, base is the set of heads of the DAG resulting from
+    the intersection of the nodes from repo and remote.
     If a list of heads is specified, return only nodes which are heads
     or ancestors of these heads.