diff --git a/src-release.sh b/src-release.sh
index 40d0126a0a7..64fa4c2120b 100755
--- a/src-release.sh
+++ b/src-release.sh
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ getver()
 	bfd/configure --version | sed -n -e '1s,.* ,,p'
     elif test -f $tool/common/create-version.sh; then
 	$tool/common/create-version.sh $tool 'dummy-host' 'dummy-target' VER.tmp
-	cat VER.tmp | grep 'version\[\]' | sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' | sed 's/-cvs$//'
+	cat VER.tmp | grep 'version\[\]' | sed 's/.*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/' | sed 's/-git$//'
         rm -f VER.tmp
     elif test -f $tool/version.in; then
 	head -1 $tool/version.in