diff --git a/requests/sessions.py b/requests/sessions.py
index a46957ff..758e6eab 100644
--- a/requests/sessions.py
+++ b/requests/sessions.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ class SessionRedirectMixin(object):
             prepared_request = req.copy()
 
             if i > 0:
-                #create deep copy of the history and keep track of redirects
+                #update history and keep track of redirects
                 hist.append(resp)
                 new_hist = list(hist)
                 resp.history = new_hist
diff --git a/test_requests.py b/test_requests.py
index aa4a2745..34ebd8ca 100755
--- a/test_requests.py
+++ b/test_requests.py
@@ -976,10 +976,11 @@ class RequestsTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_requests_history_is_saved(self):
         r = requests.get('https://httpbin.org/redirect/5')
-        count = 0
+        total = r.history[-1].history
+        i = 0
         for item in r.history:
-            assert len(item.history) == count
-            count = count + 1
+            assert item.history == total[0:i]
+            i=i+1
 
 
 class TestContentEncodingDetection(unittest.TestCase):