1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 057b6b3c5dfb..ef8729f48586 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -160,8 +160,10 @@ if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then
         # full scm version string
         res="$res$(scm_version)"
 else
-        # apped a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean tagged
-        # state and  LOCALVERSION= is not specified
+        # append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
+        # annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
+        # looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
+        # LOCALVERSION= is not specified
         if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
                 scm=$(scm_version --short)
                 res="$res${scm:++}"