diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index b0d35335965..d6815746a97 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1150,6 +1150,7 @@ Release 0.90.0 - Unreleased
                (Bennett Neale via Stack)
    HBASE-3218  Shell help cleanup/cosmetics/edit
    HBASE-3079  Shell displaying uninformative exceptions
+   HBASE-3227  Edit of log messages before branching.
 
 
   NEW FEATURES
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
index ce5df7c7506..1682b761223 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HConnectionManager.java
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ public class HConnectionManager {
 
       // Check if we already have a good master connection
       if (master != null) {
-        if(master.isMasterRunning()) {
+        if (master.isMasterRunning()) {
           return master;
         }
       }
@@ -877,8 +877,8 @@ public class HConnectionManager {
           HRegionLocation rl = getCachedLocation(tableName, row);
           if (rl != null) {
             tableLocations.remove(rl.getRegionInfo().getStartKey());
-            if (LOG.isInfoEnabled()) {
-              LOG.info("Removed " +
+            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+              LOG.debug("Removed " +
                 rl.getRegionInfo().getRegionNameAsString() +
                 " for tableName=" + Bytes.toString(tableName) +
                 " from cache " + "because of " + Bytes.toStringBinary(row));
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSplitThread.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSplitThread.java
index a864114701c..2eeb19f7a90 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSplitThread.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/CompactSplitThread.java
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ public class CompactSplitThread extends Thread implements CompactionRequestor {
     }
     if (compactionQueue.add(r, priority) && LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
       LOG.debug("Compaction " + (force? "(major) ": "") +
-        "requested for region " + r.getRegionNameAsString() +
-        (why != null && !why.isEmpty()? " because: " + why: "") +
-        "; Priority: " + priority + "; Compaction queue size: " + compactionQueue.size());
+        "requested for " + r.getRegionNameAsString() +
+        (why != null && !why.isEmpty()? " because " + why: "") +
+        "; priority=" + priority + ", compaction queue size=" + compactionQueue.size());
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
index e0de8f547c9..dcea027d729 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/HRegion.java
@@ -898,8 +898,8 @@ public class HRegion implements HeapSize { // , Writable{
       return false;
     }
     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-      LOG.debug("Started memstore flush for region " + this +
-        "; current region memstore size " +
+      LOG.debug("Started memstore flush for " + this +
+        ", current region memstore size " +
         StringUtils.humanReadableInt(this.memstoreSize.get()) +
         ((wal != null)? "": "; wal is null, using passed sequenceid=" + myseqid));
     }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
index 799e08734bc..8bcc92241a7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/Store.java
@@ -503,8 +503,7 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
       LOG.info("Added " + sf + ", entries=" + r.getEntries() +
         ", sequenceid=" + logCacheFlushId +
         ", memsize=" + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(flushed) +
-        ", filesize=" + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(r.length()) +
-        " to " + this.region.regionInfo.getRegionNameAsString());
+        ", filesize=" + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(r.length()));
     }
     return sf;
   }
@@ -579,7 +578,7 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
    */
   void deleteChangedReaderObserver(ChangedReadersObserver o) {
     if (!this.changedReaderObservers.remove(o)) {
-      LOG.warn("Not in set" + o);
+      LOG.warn("Not in set (double-remove?) " + o);
     }
   }
 
@@ -700,9 +699,9 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
         if (end - start < this.compactionThreshold) {
           if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
             LOG.debug("Skipped compaction of " + this.storeNameStr
-              + ".  Only " + (end - start) + " file(s) of size "
+              + " because only " + (end - start) + " file(s) of size "
               + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(totalSize)
-              + " are meet compaction criteria.");
+              + " meet compaction criteria.");
           }
           return checkSplit(forceSplit);
         }
@@ -726,8 +725,8 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
       long maxId = StoreFile.getMaxSequenceIdInList(filesToCompact);
 
       // Ready to go.  Have list of files to compact.
-      LOG.info("Started compaction of " + filesToCompact.size() + " file(s) in " +
-          this.storeNameStr + " of " + this.region.getRegionInfo().getRegionNameAsString() +
+      LOG.info("Started compaction of " + filesToCompact.size() + " file(s) in cf=" +
+          this.storeNameStr +
         (references? ", hasReferences=true,": " ") + " into " +
           region.getTmpDir() + ", seqid=" + maxId +
           ", totalSize=" + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(totalSize));
@@ -736,9 +735,8 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
       StoreFile sf = completeCompaction(filesToCompact, writer);
       if (LOG.isInfoEnabled()) {
         LOG.info("Completed" + (majorcompaction? " major ": " ") +
-          "compaction of " + filesToCompact.size() + " file(s) in " +
-          this.storeNameStr + " of " + this.region.getRegionInfo().getRegionNameAsString() +
-          "; new storefile name=" + (sf == null? "none": sf.toString()) +
+          "compaction of " + filesToCompact.size() +
+          " file(s), new file=" + (sf == null? "none": sf.toString()) +
           ", size=" + (sf == null? "none": StringUtils.humanReadableInt(sf.getReader().length())) +
           "; total size for store is " + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(storeSize));
       }
@@ -897,10 +895,10 @@ public class Store implements HeapSize {
           ? r.getFilterEntries() : r.getEntries();
         maxKeyCount += keyCount;
         if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-          LOG.debug("Compacting: " + file +
-            "; keyCount = " + keyCount +
-            "; Bloom Type = " + r.getBloomFilterType().toString() +
-            "; Size = " + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(r.length()) );
+          LOG.debug("Compacting " + file +
+            ", keycount=" + keyCount +
+            ", bloomtype=" + r.getBloomFilterType().toString() +
+            ", size=" + StringUtils.humanReadableInt(r.length()) );
         }
       }
     }