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diff --git a/lib/bb/main.py b/lib/bb/main.py
index 92d8dc029..bca8ebfa0 100755
--- a/lib/bb/main.py
+++ b/lib/bb/main.py
@@ -217,7 +217,9 @@ def create_bitbake_parser():
"execution. The SIGNATURE_HANDLER parameter is passed to the "
"handler. Two common values are none and printdiff but the handler "
"may define more/less. none means only dump the signature, printdiff"
- " means compare the dumped signature with the cached one.")
+ " means recursively compare the dumped signature with the most recent"
+ " one in a local build or sstate cache (can be used to find out why tasks re-run"
+ " when that is not expected)")
exec_group.add_argument("--revisions-changed", action="store_true",
help="Set the exit code depending on whether upstream floating "