diff --git a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
index a1351c5bb8..98c0033a55 100644
--- a/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
+++ b/Documentation/howto/using-signed-tag-in-pull-request.txt
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ The resulting msg.txt file begins like so:
 
  are available in the git repository at:
 
-   example.com:/git/froboz.git frotz-for-xyzzy
+   example.com:/git/froboz.git tags/frotz-for-xyzzy
 
  for you to fetch changes up to 703f05ad5835c...:
 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ After receiving such a pull request message, the integrator fetches and
 integrates the tag named in the request, with:
 
 ------------
- $ git pull example.com:/git/froboz.git/ frotz-for-xyzzy
+ $ git pull example.com:/git/froboz.git/ tags/frotz-for-xyzzy
 ------------
 
 This operation will always open an editor to allow the integrator to fine
diff --git a/git-request-pull.sh b/git-request-pull.sh
index 64960d65a1..e6438e24c7 100755
--- a/git-request-pull.sh
+++ b/git-request-pull.sh
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ die "fatal: No commits in common between $base and $head"
 find_matching_ref='
 	sub abbr {
 		my $ref = shift;
-		if ($ref =~ s|refs/heads/|| || $ref =~ s|refs/tags/||) {
+		if ($ref =~ s|^refs/heads/|| || $ref =~ s|^refs/tags/|tags/|) {
 			return $ref;
 		} else {
 			return $ref;
diff --git a/t/t5150-request-pull.sh b/t/t5150-request-pull.sh
index da25bc2d1f..7c1dc641de 100755
--- a/t/t5150-request-pull.sh
+++ b/t/t5150-request-pull.sh
@@ -179,11 +179,7 @@ test_expect_success 'request names an appropriate branch' '
 		read repository &&
 		read branch
 	} <digest &&
-	{
-		test "$branch" = full ||
-		test "$branch" = master ||
-		test "$branch" = for-upstream
-	}
+	test "$branch" = tags/full
 
 '