diff --git a/src/metabase/routes.clj b/src/metabase/routes.clj
index 39fbbfba4cc21a4d2925bf941fddb5f0ba067eba..44dd68f9acb6f319b6a16eb451bf97db10839970 100644
--- a/src/metabase/routes.clj
+++ b/src/metabase/routes.clj
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
    :password_complexity   (metabase.util.password/active-password-complexity)
    :setup_token           (setup/token-value)
    :timezones             metabase.models.common/timezones
-   ;; Version info
    :version               (config/mb-version)
    ;; all of these values are dynamic settings from the admin UI but we include them here for bootstrapping availability
    :anon-tracking-enabled (setting/get :anon-tracking-enabled)
diff --git a/version b/version
index fdfc58aff13fc91dc659a9afc73300104e342a13..5b829800d1c24f86e42f53a01c59b8473c29e773 100755
--- a/version
+++ b/version
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 # Return the version string used to describe this version of Metabase.
 
 TAG=$(git describe origin/master --tags --abbrev=0)
-HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)
+HASH=$(git show-ref --head --hash=7 head)            # first 7 letters of hash should be enough; that's what GitHub uses
 BRANCH=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)
 echo "$TAG ($HASH $BRANCH)"