diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 9bfe80f..c3bc977 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import os
 
-#version info of the library
-revision = svn_version = os.popen('svnversion').read()[:-1]
+#version info of the library, we use 5 chars from the git hash
+revision = os.popen('git describe --abbrev=5 --dirty --always').read()[:-1]
 
 version_info =  {
     'version_major':  1 ,