diff --git a/scripts/README.md b/scripts/README.md
index 5e48c855c..4d855ba4e 100644
--- a/scripts/README.md
+++ b/scripts/README.md
@@ -3,19 +3,5 @@
 These are a collection of scripts that should be helpful for those developing
 on dendrite.
 
-- `./scripts/find-lint.sh` runs the linters against dendrite,
-  `./scripts/find-lint.sh fast` runs a subset of faster lints
-- `./scripts/build-test-lint.sh` builds, tests and lints dendrite, and
-  should be run before pushing commits
-- `./scripts/install-local-kafka.sh` downloads, installs and runs a
-  kafka instance
-- `./scripts/travis-test.sh` is what travis runs
-
-
-The linters can take a lot of resources and are slow, so they can be
-configured using two enviroment variables:
-
-- `DENDRITE_LINT_CONCURRENCY` - number of concurrent linters to run,
-  gometalinter defaults this to 8
-- `DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC` - if set then the the go gc will be disabled
-  when running the linters, speeding them up but using much more memory.
+See `find-lint.sh` for environment variables that control linter resource
+usage.
diff --git a/scripts/build-test-lint.sh b/scripts/build-test-lint.sh
index e9541ea10..cf1f37b78 100755
--- a/scripts/build-test-lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-test-lint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 
+# Builds, tests and lints dendrite, and should be run before pushing commits
+
 set -eu
 
 export GOPATH="$(pwd):$(pwd)/vendor"
@@ -22,6 +24,3 @@ misspell -error src *.md
 
 echo "Testing..."
 gb test
-
-
-echo "Done!"
diff --git a/scripts/find-lint.sh b/scripts/find-lint.sh
index 589032b6e..a5798afad 100755
--- a/scripts/find-lint.sh
+++ b/scripts/find-lint.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 
+# Runs the linters against dendrite
+
+# The linters can take a lot of resources and are slow, so they can be
+# configured using two environment variables:
+#
+# - `DENDRITE_LINT_CONCURRENCY` - number of concurrent linters to run,
+#   gometalinter defaults this to 8
+# - `DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC` - if set then the the go gc will be disabled
+#   when running the linters, speeding them up but using much more memory.
+
+
 set -eu
 
 export GOPATH="$(pwd):$(pwd)/vendor"
diff --git a/scripts/install-local-kafka.sh b/scripts/install-local-kafka.sh
index 32f952349..869d28914 100755
--- a/scripts/install-local-kafka.sh
+++ b/scripts/install-local-kafka.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # /bin/bash
 
+# Downloads, installs and runs a kafka instance
+
 set -eu
 
 # The mirror to download kafka from is picked from the list of mirrors at
diff --git a/scripts/travis-test.sh b/scripts/travis-test.sh
index 1ea7c47cf..5851c3b0f 100755
--- a/scripts/travis-test.sh
+++ b/scripts/travis-test.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 #! /bin/bash
 
+# The entry point for travis tests
+
 set -eu
 
 # Tune the GC to use more memory to reduce the number of garbage collections
 export GOGC=400
+export DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC=1
 
 # Check that the servers build (this is done explicitly because `gb build` can silently fail (exit 0) and then we'd test a stale binary)
 gb build github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/cmd/dendrite-room-server
@@ -15,8 +18,8 @@ gb build github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/cmd/dendrite-media-api-server
 gb build github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/cmd/mediaapi-integration-tests
 gb build github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/cmd/client-api-proxy
 
-# Run the pre commit hooks
-DENDRITE_LINT_DISABLE_GC=1 ./scripts/build-test-lint.sh
+# Run unit tests and linters
+./scripts/build-test-lint.sh
 
 # Run the integration tests
 bin/roomserver-integration-tests