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diff --git a/config/Config-devel.in b/config/Config-devel.in
index 5e5c857b42..d096c18a72 100644
--- a/config/Config-devel.in
+++ b/config/Config-devel.in
@@ -15,10 +15,19 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
 	config BINARY_FOLDER
 		string "Binary folder" if DEVEL
 		default ""
+		help
+		  Store built firmware images and filesystem images in this directory.
+		  If not set, uses './bin/$(BOARD)'
 
 	config DOWNLOAD_FOLDER
 		string "Download folder" if DEVEL
 		default ""
+		help
+		  Store downloaded source bundles in this directory.
+		  If not set then defaults to './dl', which is removed by operations such as
+		  'git clean -xdf' or 'make distclean'.
+		  This option is useful if you have a low bandwidth Internet connection, and by
+		  setting a path outside the OpenWrt tree downloads will be saved.
 
 	config LOCALMIRROR
 		string "Local mirror for source packages" if DEVEL
@@ -28,26 +37,29 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
 		bool "Automatic rebuild of packages" if DEVEL
 		default y
 		help
-		  Automatically rebuild packages when their files change
+		  Automatically rebuild packages when their files change.
 
 	config BUILD_SUFFIX
-		string "Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable" if DEVEL
+		string "Build suffix to append to the target BUILD_DIR variable" if DEVEL
 		default ""
 		help
-		  Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: build_dir_suffix
+		  Build suffix to append to the BUILD_DIR variable, i.e: './build_dir/{target-build-dir}_$(BUILD_SUFFIX)'.
+		  This allows you to switch to a different .config whilst retaining all the build
+		  objects generated by the first .config
 
 	config TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR
 		string "Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable" if DEVEL
 		default ""
 		help
-		  Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable content $(BUILD_DIR) with custom path.
-		  Use this option to re-define the location of the target root file system directory.
+		  Override the default TARGET_ROOTFS_DIR variable content $(BUILD_DIR) with
+		  custom path.  Use this option to re-define the location of the target
+		  root filesystem directory.
 
 	config CCACHE
 		bool "Use ccache" if DEVEL
 		default n
 		help
-		  Compiler cache; see http://ccache.samba.org/
+		  Compiler cache; see http://ccache.samba.org/.
 
 	config EXTERNAL_KERNEL_TREE
 		string "Use external kernel tree" if DEVEL
@@ -59,21 +71,30 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
 		help
 		  Enter the full git repository path i.e.:
 		  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
-		  This will create a git clone of the kernel in your build
-		  directory.
+		  This will create a git clone of the kernel in your build directory.
 
 	config KERNEL_GIT_LOCAL_REPOSITORY
 		string "Enter path to local reference repository" if DEVEL
+		depends on (KERNEL_GIT_CLONE_URI != "")
 		default ""
 		help
 		  Enter a full pathname to a local reference git repository.
-		  In this instance, the --refererence option of git clone will
+		  In this instance, the --reference option of git clone will
 		  be used thus creating a quick local clone of your repo.
 
+	config KERNEL_GIT_BRANCH
+		string "Enter git branch to clone" if DEVEL
+		depends on (KERNEL_GIT_CLONE_URI != "")
+		default ""
+		help
+		  Enter the branch name to checkout after cloning the git repository.
+		  In this instance, the --branch option of git clone will be used.
+		  If unused, the clone's repository HEAD will be checked-out.
+
 	config BUILD_LOG
 		bool "Enable log files during build process" if DEVEL
 		help
-		  If enabled log files will be written to the ./log directory
+		  If enabled, log files will be written to the ./log directory.
 
 	config SRC_TREE_OVERRIDE
 		bool "Enable package source tree override" if DEVEL
@@ -81,10 +102,10 @@ menuconfig DEVEL
 		  If enabled, you can force a package to use a git tree as source
 		  code instead of the normal tarball. Create a symlink 'git-src'
 		  in the package directory, pointing to the .git tree that you want
-		  to pull the source code from
+		  to pull the source code from.
 
 	config EXTRA_OPTIMIZATION
 		string "Additional compiler options" if DEVEL
 		default "-fno-caller-saves"
 		help
-		  Extra Target-independent optimizations to use when building for the target.
+		  Extra target-independent optimizations to use when building for the target.