docstring: backed out changeset 51057ab0dffa
In retrospect this is too much of a behavior change for stable. So I grafted the same change as 31076a2301f1 on default, and I am backing out its version on stable.
In retrospect this is too much of a behavior change for stable. So I grafted the same change as 31076a2301f1 on default, and I am backing out its version on stable.