diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
index f389f68af7..2900cc3626 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-start.xml
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
                 repository inside the source directory, which is named <filename>poky</filename> 
                 in this case:
                 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     $ cd ~/poky
      $ git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-extras poky-extras
      Initialized empty Git repository in /home/scottrif/poky/poky-extras/.git/
      remote: Counting objects: 618, done.