diff --git a/argv.go b/argv.go
index a9ba18a..5dad273 100644
--- a/argv.go
+++ b/argv.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ var argv args
 
 type args struct {
 	Checkout *CheckoutCmd `arg:"subcommand:checkout"                  help:"switch branches using 'git checkout'"`
-	Clean    *CleanCmd    `arg:"subcommand:clean"                     help:"clean git branches"`
+	Clean    *CleanCmd    `arg:"subcommand:clean"                     help:"start over at the beginning"`
 	Commit   *EmptyCmd    `arg:"subcommand:commit"                    help:"'git commit' but errors out if on wrong branch"`
 	Config   *ConfigCmd   `arg:"subcommand:config"                    help:"show your .config/forge/ settings"`
 	Dirty    *DirtyCmd    `arg:"subcommand:dirty"                     help:"show repos git says are dirty"`
@@ -64,9 +64,10 @@ type CleanDevelCmd struct {
 }
 
 type PatchCmd struct {
-	List   *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:list"          help:"list available patches"`
-	Show   *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:show"          help:"show a specific patch"`
-	Submit string    `arg:"--submit"                 help:"submit a new patchset with name"`
+	List   *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:list"          help:"your downloaded patchsets"`
+	Get    *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:get"           help:"get the new patchsets"`
+	Show   *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:show"          help:"your pending commits to your code"`
+	Submit string    `arg:"--submit"                 help:"submit your commits"`
 }
 
 type ConfigAddCmd struct {
diff --git a/argvAutoshell.go b/argvAutoshell.go
index ba1d983..328bac6 100644
--- a/argvAutoshell.go
+++ b/argvAutoshell.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ func (args) doBashAuto() {
 	case "pull":
 		fmt.Println("--verbose")
 	case "patch":
-		fmt.Println("list --submit show")
+		fmt.Println("get list --submit show")
 	case "user":
 		fmt.Println("--force")
 	case "devel":
diff --git a/doPatch.go b/doPatch.go
index 735ab53..cf89202 100644
--- a/doPatch.go
+++ b/doPatch.go
@@ -19,13 +19,15 @@ func doPatch() error {
 	if argv.Patch.List != nil {
 		return doPatchList()
 	}
+
+	// if no option is given to patch, list out the
+	// repos that have patches ready in them
 	findReposWithPatches()
 	if me.found.Len() == 0 {
-		log.Info("you have no patches in your user branches")
-		okExit("patch list empty")
+		log.Info("you currently have no patches in your user branches")
+		return nil
 	}
 	me.forge.PrintHumanTable(me.found)
-
 	return nil
 }
 
@@ -63,6 +65,7 @@ func dumpPatchset(pset *forgepb.Patchset) bool {
 		if IsValidPatch(p) {
 			// ok
 		} else {
+			pset.State = "BROKEN"
 			bad += 1
 		}
 		count += 1
@@ -77,6 +80,9 @@ func dumpPatchset(pset *forgepb.Patchset) bool {
 func IsValidPatch(p *forgepb.Patch) bool {
 	basepath, filename := filepath.Split(p.Filename)
 	repo := me.forge.FindByGoPath(basepath)
+	if argv.Verbose {
+		log.Info("start:", p.StartHash, "end:", p.CommitHash, "file:", basepath, filename, "devel version", repo.GetDevelVersion())
+	}
 	if repo == nil {
 		log.Info("can not apply patch! repo not found", basepath, filename)
 		return false
@@ -85,6 +91,9 @@ func IsValidPatch(p *forgepb.Patch) bool {
 		log.Info("can not apply patch! devel hash mismatch", basepath, filename)
 		return false
 	}
+	if repo.DevelHash() == p.StartHash {
+		log.Info("local devel hash:", repo.DevelHash(), "matches patch hash", p.StartHash, "and can be applied")
+	}
 	log.Info("start:", p.StartHash, "end:", p.CommitHash, "file:", basepath, filename, "devel version", repo.GetDevelVersion())
 	for _, line := range p.Files {
 		log.Info("\t", line)