diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 5176304aed..1ac32aa689 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -372,6 +372,9 @@ Release 2.6.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-6104. TestJobHistoryParsing.testPartialJob fails in branch-2
     (Mit Desai via jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-6109. Fix minor typo in distcp -p usage text (Charles Lamb 
+    via aw)
+
 Release 2.5.1 - 2014-09-05
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCpOptionSwitch.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCpOptionSwitch.java
index 9b85997ef9..d263f8273d 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCpOptionSwitch.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/DistCpOptionSwitch.java
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ public enum DistCpOptionSwitch {
           "and timestamps. " +
           "raw.* xattrs are preserved when both the source and destination " +
           "paths are in the /.reserved/raw hierarchy (HDFS only). raw.* xattr" +
-          "preservation is independent of the -p flag." +
+          "preservation is independent of the -p flag. " +
           "Refer to the DistCp documentation for more details.")),
 
   /**