diff -r 517e1d88bf7e -r f966979f61ce mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Fri Jun 10 11:43:38 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Thu Jun 09 18:39:14 2011 +0200
@@ -4102,7 +4102,7 @@
     state and unschedules adds, removes, copies, and renames.
 
     Using the -r/--rev or -d/--date options, revert the given files or
-    directories to their contents as of a specific revision. Because
+    directories to their states as of a specific revision. Because
     revert does not change the working directory parents, this will
     cause these files to appear modified. This can be helpful to "back
     out" some or all of an earlier change. See :hg:`backout` for a