diff --git a/dev-support/test-patch.sh b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
index 7435365fce9..673f8ddd48d 100755
--- a/dev-support/test-patch.sh
+++ b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ checkTests () {
   echo "======================================================================"
   echo ""
   echo ""
-  testReferences=`$GREP -c -i '/test' $PATCH_DIR/patch`
+  testReferences=`$GREP -c -i -e '^+++.*/test' $PATCH_DIR/patch`
   echo "There appear to be $testReferences test files referenced in the patch."
   if [[ $testReferences == 0 ]] ; then
     if [[ $JENKINS == "true" ]] ; then
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ checkTests () {
   fi
   JIRA_COMMENT="$JIRA_COMMENT
 
-    +1 tests included.  The patch appears to include $testReferences new or modified tests."
+    +1 tests included.  The patch appears to include $testReferences new or modified test files."
   return 0
 }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 167508b1810..8e0f2c3db97 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     HADOOP-8244. Improve comments on ByteBufferReadable.read. (Henry Robinson
     via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-7757. Test file reference count is at least 3x actual value (Jon
+    Eagles via bobby)
+
   BUG FIXES
 
     HADOOP-8177. MBeans shouldn't try to register when it fails to create MBeanName.