diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index f9ff7c5..e2dc322 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -14,6 +14,6 @@ Phases:
 Rolling a release:
 - Bump the version in the main genkernel file.
 - echangelog commit the bump
-- git tag -a -m "Tag release $PV" v${PV}
+- git tag -a -m "Tag release v${PV}" v${PV}
 - make dist
 - upload genkernel-${PV}.tar.bz2 to the hosting.