diff --git a/cli/commandadd.cpp b/cli/commandadd.cpp
index d9c66e1..13c79b0 100644
--- a/cli/commandadd.cpp
+++ b/cli/commandadd.cpp
@@ -16,7 +16,10 @@
 int CommandAdd::handle(QStringList arguments)
 {
 	QCommandLineParser parser;
-	parser.addOptions({{{"c", "continue"}, "Continue adding files, don't exit on first error"},
+	parser.addOptions({{{"c", "continue"},
+						"Continue adding files, don't exit on first error. If this option is not given, qss will exit "
+						"asap, but it's possible that a few files will still be processed. "
+						"Set -t 1 to avoid this behavior, but processing will be slower. "},
 					   {{"a", "all"}, "On error, no files should be added, even already processed ones"},
 					   {{"v", "verbose"}, "Print skipped and added files"},
 					   {{"t", "threads"}, "Number of threads to use.", "threads"}});
diff --git a/cli/commandupdate.cpp b/cli/commandupdate.cpp
index ec54162..f4c5a73 100644
--- a/cli/commandupdate.cpp
+++ b/cli/commandupdate.cpp
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ int CommandUpdate::handle(QStringList arguments)
 		 {{"n", "dry-run"}, "Only print which files would be updated, don't actually update them"},
 		 {"pattern", "Only consider to update files in the index matching the pattern, e. g. */.git/*.", "pattern"},
 		 {{"d", "delete"}, "If a file does not exist anymore, delete it"},
-		 {{"c", "continue"}, "Continue adding files, don't exit on first error"},
+		 {{"c", "continue"},
+		  "Continue adding files, don't exit on first error. If this option is not given, qss will exit asap, but it's "
+		  "possible that a few files will still be processed. "
+		  "Set -t 1 to avoid this behavior, but processing will be slower."},
 		 {{"a", "all"}, "On error, no files should be updated, even already processed ones"},
 		 {{"t", "threads"}, "Number of threads to use.", "threads"}