diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index ba21d87..0fc46ca 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ## 3.0.0 / not yet released / branch "master"
 
 * ...
+* Support for passing variables to snippets in subdirs, see #271 [Joost Hietbrink, joost]
 * Add a class cache to avoid runtime extend calls, see #249 [James Tucker, raggi]
 * Remove some legacy Ruby 1.8 compatibility code, see #276 [Florian Weingarten, fw42]
 * Add default filter to standard filters, see #267 [Derrick Reimer, djreimer]
diff --git a/lib/liquid/tags/include.rb b/lib/liquid/tags/include.rb
index 1d0ce66..d439fff 100644
--- a/lib/liquid/tags/include.rb
+++ b/lib/liquid/tags/include.rb
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ module Liquid
           context[key] = context[value]
         end
 
-        context_variable_name = @template_name[1..-2].split('/').last # for a snippet in a subdir only use the filename
+        context_variable_name = @template_name[1..-2].split('/').last
         if variable.is_a?(Array)
           variable.collect do |var|
             context[context_variable_name] = var