Clarify oplog behavior of dbhelpers functions

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/mongo/db/dbhelpers.h b/src/mongo/db/dbhelpers.h
index c2c63d9e8a6..6e42fad7e26 100644
--- a/src/mongo/db/dbhelpers.h
+++ b/src/mongo/db/dbhelpers.h
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ namespace mongo {
             virtual ~RemoveCallback() {}
             virtual void goingToDelete( const BSONObj& o ) = 0;
         };
-        /* removeRange: operation is oplog'd */
+
+        /**
+         * Remove all documents in the range.
+         * Does oplog the individual document deletions.
+         */
         static long long removeRange( const string& ns , 
                                       const BSONObj& min , 
                                       const BSONObj& max , 
@@ -118,9 +122,11 @@ namespace mongo {
                                       RemoveCallback * callback = 0, 
                                       bool fromMigrate = false );
 
-        /* Remove all objects from a collection.
-        You do not need to set the database before calling.
-        */
+        /**
+         * Remove all documents from a collection.
+         * You do not need to set the database before calling.
+         * Does not oplog the operation.
+         */
         static void emptyCollection(const char *ns);
 
     };