diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index 0fff4297643e3c081f6b5d0cbe812e93608ba69f..8ea38a9314f550f3d5da0b2f01651c2e2d7989bc 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2011-01-30  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+	* update_version_svn (SVN): Remove obsolete comment.
+	(CURR_DATE): Fix description.
+	Fix description of checkout procedure.
+
 2010-12-18  Tobias Burnus  <burnus@net-b.de>
 
 	* update_web_docs_svn (MANUALS): Add libquadmath.
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn b/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
index 736c990da822f21d13aac430dd8ba7bd11eaaba7..b7c7d1f032e5a1dfa0a7012723fc3433b80da6d9 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/update_version_svn
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ export SVNROOT
 /bin/mkdir /tmp/$$
 cd /tmp/$$
 
-# The path to cvs.
 SVN=${SVN:-/usr/bin/svn}
 
 # Compute the branches which we should update.
@@ -26,7 +25,7 @@ BRANCHES=`$SVN ls $SVNROOT/branches \
 # Always update the mainline.
 BRANCHES="${BRANCHES} ${ADD_BRANCHES}"
 
-# ARGS is passed to 'cvs co'
+# This is put into the datestamp files.
 CURR_DATE=`/bin/date +"%Y%m%d"`
 
 # version is all there is
@@ -38,9 +37,7 @@ FILES="$datestamp_FILES"
 RESULT=0
 for BRANCH in $BRANCHES; do
   echo "Working on \"$BRANCH\"."
-  # Check out the files on the branch.  HEAD is a special case; if
-  # you check out files with -r HEAD, CVS will not let you check 
-  # in changes.
+  # Check out the files on the branch.  HEAD is in a different namespace.
   if test "$BRANCH" = HEAD; then 
     for i in $FILES; do
       ${SVN} -q co -N ${SVNROOT}/trunk/`dirname $i` `basename $i`