diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
index 3ca9079b3..4492de9cd 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/external-scm.rst
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ Subversion (SVN) and Git.

 To enable this behavior, the :term:`PV` of
 the recipe needs to include a ``+`` sign in its assignment.
-Here is an example::
+Here are a couple examples of how this can be done --- the first
+hard-coding the value for ``PV``, the second simply appending
+the string "+git" to the value already assigned to that variable::

    PV = "1.2.3+git"
+   PV .= "+git"

 :term:`Bitbake` later includes the source control information in :term:`PKGV`
 during the packaging phase.