--- a/doc/hg.1.txt	Wed Sep 14 12:22:20 2005 -0500
+++ b/doc/hg.1.txt	Wed Sep 14 10:50:03 2005 -0700
@@ -432,7 +432,8 @@
 
     This command schedules the files to be removed at the next commit.
     This only removes files from the current branch, not from the
-    entire project history.
+    entire project history.  If the files still exist in the working
+    directory, they will be deleted from it.
 
     aliases: rm