diff --git a/version.sh b/version.sh
index 70679cc7f0..774e514c22 100755
--- a/version.sh
+++ b/version.sh
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 # check for SVN revision number
 revision=$(cd "$1" && cat snapshot_version 2> /dev/null)
-test $revision || revision=$(cd "$1" && LC_ALL=C svn info 2> /dev/null | grep Revision | cut -d' ' -f2)
-test $revision || revision=$(cd "$1" && grep revision .svn/entries 2>/dev/null | cut -d '"' -f2)
+test $revision || revision=$(cd "$1" && LC_ALL=C svn info 2> /dev/null | grep "Last Changed Rev" | cut -d' ' -f4)
+test $revision || revision=$(cd "$1" && grep committed-rev .svn/entries 2>/dev/null | head -n 1 | cut -d '"' -f2)
 test $revision || revision=$(cd "$1" && sed -n -e '/^dir$/{n
 p
 q