diff --git a/src/elog.c b/src/elog.c
index 634a2080..cd67e541 100755
--- a/src/elog.c
+++ b/src/elog.c
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@
 
   Contents:     Electronic logbook utility
 
-  $Id$
-
 \********************************************************************/
 
 #include "elog-version.h"
-char svn_revision[] = "$Id$";
+#include "git-revision.h"
+const char *_git_revision = GIT_REVISION;
+
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ char text[TEXT_SIZE], old_text[TEXT_SIZE], new_text[TEXT_SIZE];
 
 /*------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
+
+const char *git_revision()
+{
+   const char *p = _git_revision;
+   if (strrchr(p, '-'))
+      p = strrchr(p, '-')+2;
+   return p;
+}
+
+/*------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
 char *map = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
 
 void base64_encode(unsigned char *s, unsigned char *d, int size)
@@ -1051,10 +1062,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
             } else {
              usage:
                printf("%s ", ELOGID);
-               strcpy(str, svn_revision + 13);
-               if (strchr(str, ' '))
-                  *strchr(str, ' ') = 0;
-               printf("revision %s\n", str);
+               printf("revision %s\n", git_revision());
                printf("\nusage: elog\n");
                printf("elog -h <hostname> [-p port] [-d subdir]\n");
                printf("                              Location where elogd is running\n");
diff --git a/xcode/elog.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj b/xcode/elog.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
index 975e49fe..348536bd 100644
--- a/xcode/elog.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+++ b/xcode/elog.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
@@ -187,10 +187,7 @@
 				COPY_PHASE_STRIP = NO;
 				GCC_DYNAMIC_NO_PIC = NO;
 				GCC_ENABLE_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS = YES;
-				GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS = (
-					HAVE_SSL,
-					DEBUG,
-				);
+				GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS = DEBUG;
 				GCC_WARN_64_TO_32_BIT_CONVERSION = NO;
 				OTHER_LDFLAGS = "-lssl";
 				PRODUCT_NAME = "$(TARGET_NAME)";