--- a/mercurial/interfaces/repository.py	Sun Dec 22 23:50:19 2019 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/interfaces/repository.py	Mon Dec 23 01:12:20 2019 -0500
@@ -878,7 +878,9 @@
 
         If individual revisions cannot have their revision content resolved,
         the method is expected to set the ``skipread`` key to a set of nodes
-        that encountered problems.
+        that encountered problems.  If set, the method can also add the node(s)
+        to ``safe_renamed`` in order to indicate nodes that may perform the
+        rename checks with currently accessible data.
 
         The method yields objects conforming to the ``iverifyproblem``
         interface.