diff --git a/config/initializers/git_info.rb b/config/initializers/git_info.rb
index e7aaffdda..09b540703 100644
--- a/config/initializers/git_info.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/git_info.rb
@@ -2,4 +2,22 @@
 #   licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or later.  See
 #   the COPYRIGHT file.
 
-GIT_INFO = `git show --name-only`
+s = `git show --name-only 2>/dev/null || :`
+if (s.nil? or s.empty?)
+     path =  File.expand_path("config/gitversion")
+     begin
+         if (File.exists?( path))
+             s = ''
+             f = File.open( path)
+             f.each_line do |line|
+                 s += line
+             end
+             f.close
+         end
+     rescue
+         s = ""
+     end
+end
+GIT_INFO = s
+# What's the scope of this s? Leave to GC just in case...
+s = nil
diff --git a/pkg/fedora/README.md b/pkg/fedora/README.md
index 96c9c47d9..2dade7700 100644
--- a/pkg/fedora/README.md
+++ b/pkg/fedora/README.md
@@ -65,9 +65,6 @@ The topmost comment's version is patched to reflect the complete version
 of current specfile by 'make-dist source'. WRite the comment in this 
 directory, copy-paste previous version nr. It will be updated.
 
-rpmlint shows many errors, most of which related to that the server
-won't start if the .git directories are not included. Needs investigation.
-
 This has been confirmed to start up and provide basic functionality both using 
 the thin webserver and apache passenger, and on 32/64 bit systems.