diff --git a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
index d50eb1fc08..e911fa01ab 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/alldocs.go
@@ -697,9 +697,9 @@
 // a non-nil Error field; other information may or may not be missing
 // (zeroed).
 //
-// The -test flag causes list to add to its output test binaries for the
-// named packages that have tests, to make information about test
-// binary construction available to source code analysis tools.
+// The -test flag causes list to report not only the named packages
+// but also their test binaries (for packages with tests), to convey to
+// source code analysis tools exactly how test binaries are constructed.
 // The reported import path for a test binary is the import path of
 // the package followed by a ".test" suffix, as in "math/rand.test".
 // When building a test, it is sometimes necessary to rebuild certain
@@ -1094,9 +1094,9 @@
 // 	GOMIPS
 // 		For GOARCH=mips{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions.
 // 		Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat.
-//	GOMIPS64
-//		For GOARCH=mips64{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions.
-//		Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat.
+// 	GOMIPS64
+// 		For GOARCH=mips64{,le}, whether to use floating point instructions.
+// 		Valid values are hardfloat (default), softfloat.
 //
 // Special-purpose environment variables:
 //