diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
index 567e721e4e..82d2312994 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky.xml
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
     <title>Maintaining Build Output Quality</title>
 
     <para>
-        A build's quality can be influenced by several things.
+        A build's quality can be influenced by many things.
         For example, if you upgrade a recipe to use a new version of an upstream software 
         package or you experiment with some new configuration options, subtle changes
         can occur that you might not detect until later. 
@@ -413,7 +413,8 @@
      INHERIT += "buildhistory"
      BUILDHISTORY_COMMIT = "1"
             </literallayout>
-            Enabling build history causes the build process to collect build
+            Enabling build history as previously described 
+            causes the build process to collect build
             output information and commit it to a local 
             <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#git'>Git</ulink> repository.
             <note>
@@ -430,7 +431,9 @@
             build history in this manner can change the 
             <filename>do_package</filename> task checksums, which if you 
             are using the OEBasicHash signature generator (the default 
-            for some distro configurations) will result in the packaging 
+            for many current distro configurations including
+            <filename>DISTRO = "poky"</filename> and 
+            <filename>DISRTO = ""</filename>) will result in the packaging 
             tasks being re-run during the subsequent build.
         </para>
 
@@ -531,8 +534,9 @@
                         filenames.</para></listitem>
                 </itemizedlist>
                 <note>
-                    Installed package information is able to be gathered and 
-                    produced even if packaging is disabled for the final image.
+                    Installed package information is able to be gathered and
+                    produced even if package management is disabled for the final 
+                    image.
                 </note>
             </para>
 
@@ -561,8 +565,8 @@
             </para>
         </section>
 
-        <section id='limiting-build-history-information'>
-            <title>Limiting Build History Information</title>
+        <section id='using-build-history-to-gather-image-information-only'>
+            <title>Using Build History to Gather Image Information Only</title>
 
             <para> 
                 As you can see, build history produces image information, 
@@ -570,7 +574,8 @@
                 was pulled into the image. 
                 If you are just interested in this information and not 
                 interested in collecting history or any package information, 
-                you can limit the build history output by adding the following 
+                you can enable writing only image information without 
+                any history by adding the following 
                 to your <filename>conf/local.conf</filename> file found in the 
                 <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#build-directory'>Build Directory</ulink>:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>