diff --git a/docs/maintainer-guide.txt b/docs/maintainer-guide.txt
index 6f10f9cb1f..51219fd66d 100644
--- a/docs/maintainer-guide.txt
+++ b/docs/maintainer-guide.txt
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ MAINTAINER SANDBOX (to be completed and pushed)
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 * create a GPG-signed tag v<incremented version> (ex: v2.8.0):
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-:; git tag -sm 'Release NUT v2.8.0'
+:; git tag -sm 'Release NUT v2.8.0' v2.8.0
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 ** try to avoid adding signed tags later (ex. v2.8.0-signed) to avoid the
    mess in GitHub release URLs (or do amend that post-factum), for more