diff --git a/book/10-git-internals/sections/maintenance.asc b/book/10-git-internals/sections/maintenance.asc
index 1cdfcd527..de4a30d8d 100644
--- a/book/10-git-internals/sections/maintenance.asc
+++ b/book/10-git-internals/sections/maintenance.asc
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ First, add a large object to your history:
 
 [source,console]
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-$ curl https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.1.0.tar.gz > git.tgz
+$ curl -L https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-2.1.0.tar.gz > git.tgz
 $ git add git.tgz
 $ git commit -m 'Add git tarball'
 [master 7b30847] Add git tarball