it in (in this case <quote>cvs-fast-export</quote>). This can of
course easily happen if your project's public name changes after
you register it.</para>
-
-<para>The <option>build</option> and <option>advertise</option>
-options of versions 1.1 and previously are no longer needed, as
-Coverity has changed its submission form to support direct upload of
-the results tarball.</para>
-
-<para>For backward compatibity, 'password' is treated as a synonym for
-'token'; the change follows a change in the terminology of Coverity's
-configuration instructions.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>OPERATION</title>
-<para>The first thing <application>coverity-submit</application> does when
-invoked is figure out which project profile to use. If no argument is
-specified but the basename of the current directory matches a project,
-it is selected. Otherwise, a command-line argument can specify the project
-name (it is a fatal error for it not to match one of the configured
-project profiles).</para>
+<para>The first thing <application>coverity-submit</application> does
+when invoked is figure out which project profile to use. If no
+argument is specified but the basename of the current directory
+matches a project, it is selected. Otherwise, a command-line argument
+can specify the project name; it is a fatal error for the argument, if
+given, not to match the name of one of the configured project profiles.</para>
<para>The <option>-n</option> option says to display all the commands that
would be run without actually executing them. The <option>-v</option> option
build-log.txt from the run to your working directory.</para>
<para>The <option>-b</option> option specifies an arbitrary build
-version to associate with the submission. A repository commit level
-would be a good thing to use for this. If coverity-submit is run
+version to associate with the submission. If coverity-submit is run
at the top level of a version-control repository, the build version may
default to a description of the head commit; presently this feature
-is supported for git only.</para>
+is supported under git, hg, bzr, and svn.</para>
<para>The <option>-t</option> option specifies an arbitrary project
tag or description to associate with the submission. This text is
<para>The script will report the result of the job request by dumping the
server's HTML response.</para>
+</refsect1>
+<refsect1><title>BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY</title>
+
+<para>For backward compatibity, 'password' is treated as a synonym for
+'token'; the change follows a change in the terminology of Coverity's
+configuration instructions.</para>
+
+<para>The <option>build</option> and <option>advertise</option>
+options of versions 1.1 and previously are no longer needed, as
+Coverity has changed its submission form to support direct upload of
+the results tarball.</para>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>PREREQUISITES</title>
<para>Requires Python, curl, and cov-build.</para>
+<para>The Coverity Scan facility has a home page:
+<ulink url="https://scan.coverity.com">https://scan.coverity.com</ulink>.
+You can find instructions on how to register projects for scanning there.
+</para>
+
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id='maintainer'><title>AUTHOR</title>