diff --git a/recipes/README.recipes.md b/recipes/README.recipes.md
index ffe5c8aab..32a26e700 100644
--- a/recipes/README.recipes.md
+++ b/recipes/README.recipes.md
@@ -877,11 +877,11 @@ Args:
 
 Returned paths will be relative to to api.path['root'].
 
-— **def [get\_footer](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#376)(self, tag, patch_text=None):**
+— **def [get\_footer](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#374)(self, tag, patch_text=None):**
 
 Gets a specific tag from a CL description
 
-— **def [get\_footers](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#338)(self, patch_text=None):**
+— **def [get\_footers](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#336)(self, patch_text=None):**
 
 Retrieves footers from the patch description.
 
@@ -900,11 +900,11 @@ Returns true iff the properties exist to match a Gerrit issue.
 
 Returns true iff we have a change to check out.
 
-— **def [normalize\_footer\_name](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#384)(self, footer):**
+— **def [normalize\_footer\_name](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#382)(self, footer):**
 
 — **def [require\_is\_tryserver](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#221)(self):**
 
-— **def [set\_change](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#387)(self, change):**
+— **def [set\_change](/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py#385)(self, change):**
 
 Set the gerrit change for this module.
 
diff --git a/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py b/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py
index 7215ee141..18e6f6e96 100644
--- a/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py
+++ b/recipes/recipe_modules/tryserver/api.py
@@ -333,8 +333,6 @@ class TryserverApi(recipe_api.RecipeApi):
     """
     self._set_failure_type('TEST_EXPIRED')
 
-  # TODO(crbug.com/1179039): switch the test in examples/full.py to not use
-  # patch_text, and drop the argument entirely from all the get_footer variants.
   def get_footers(self, patch_text=None):
     """Retrieves footers from the patch description.