--- a/ffbuild/version.sh
+++ b/ffbuild/version.sh
@@ -2,20 +2,6 @@
 
 # Usage: version.sh <ffmpeg-root-dir> <output-version.h> <extra-version>
 
-# check for git short hash
-if ! test "$revision"; then
-    if (cd "$1" && grep git RELEASE 2> /dev/null >/dev/null) ; then
-        revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --tags --match N 2> /dev/null)
-    else
-        revision=$(cd "$1" && git describe --tags --always 2> /dev/null)
-    fi
-fi
-
-# Shallow Git clones (--depth) do not have the N tag:
-# use 'git-YYYY-MM-DD-hhhhhhh'.
-test "$revision" || revision=$(cd "$1" &&
-  git log -1 --pretty=format:"git-%cd-%h" --date=short 2> /dev/null)
-
 # Snapshots from gitweb are in a directory called ffmpeg-hhhhhhh or
 # ffmpeg-HEAD-hhhhhhh.
 if [ -z "$revision" ]; then