diff --git a/scripts/publish-snapshot.sh b/scripts/publish-snapshot.sh
index 4c26834..3f33682 100755
--- a/scripts/publish-snapshot.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish-snapshot.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,9 @@
 # consumer still WALKING the old generation has its entries unlinked out from
 # under it, and `cp -al` does not report a subtree that was removed before it
 # read the parent's listing. That is a silently truncated clone — the failure
-# mode this script's own selftest (scenario 8) reproduces against the
-# unguarded version.
+# mode seed-target-dir-selftest.sh's scenario 8b reproduces from the consumer's
+# side, against the unguarded version. (This script's own selftest also has a
+# scenario 8; that one is the abandoned-reader-marker case, not this.)
 #
 # So the unlink is interlocked with the consume side rather than
 # unconditional: after the swap, this script waits for every in-flight reader