diff --git a/utils/create-release.sh b/utils/create-release.sh
index 381122b2..0b720157 100755
--- a/utils/create-release.sh
+++ b/utils/create-release.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 #Copyright 2008 Steffen Jobbagy-Felso
+#Copyright 2009 Ray E. Barker
 #This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 #it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
 #the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
@@ -15,6 +16,14 @@
 #In the "official" distribution you can find the license in
 #agpl-3.0.txt in the docs folder of the package.
 
+#   This script prepares the compressed distribution files for
+#   uploading to sourceforge.
+#
+#   Run from the root of your git repo (the folder that has .git in it)
+
+#   USAGE: $ utils/create-release.sh V
+#   where V is the current version.  e.g. utils/create-release.sh 0.55
+
 #get rid of extraneous stuff
 rm regression-test/*.found.txt
 rm regression-test/*.pyc