diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 38b96c679..44d2300c0 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ scm_version()
 		# If only the short version is requested, don't bother
 		# running further git commands
 		if $short; then
-			echo "+"
+			echo ""
 			return
 		fi
 		# If we are past the tagged commit, we pretty print it.
@@ -183,4 +183,4 @@ elif [ "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set" ]; then
 	scm_version="$(scm_version --short)"
 fi
 
-echo "${KERNELVERSION}${file_localversion}${config_localversion}${LOCALVERSION}${scm_version}"
+echo "${KERNELVERSION}${file_localversion}${config_localversion}${LOCALVERSION}"