diff --git a/discovery.php b/discovery.php
index 9dc39f4fe..3006399ff 100755
--- a/discovery.php
+++ b/discovery.php
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ $options = getopt('h:m:i:n:d::a::q');
 
 if (!isset($options['q'])) {
     echo $config['project_name_version']." Discovery\n";
-    echo `git log -n 1|grep 'commit '`."\n";
+    echo get_last_commit()."\n";
 }
 
 if (isset($options['h'])) {
diff --git a/includes/functions.php b/includes/functions.php
index 0027748ee..84e95af1d 100644
--- a/includes/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions.php
@@ -1227,3 +1227,7 @@ function fping($host,$params) {
 function function_check($function) {
     return function_exists($function);
 }
+
+function get_last_commit() {
+    return `git log -n 1|head -n1`;
+}//end get_last_commit 
diff --git a/poller.php b/poller.php
index 26f90c505..6412c37be 100755
--- a/poller.php
+++ b/poller.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ require 'includes/alerts.inc.php';
 
 $poller_start = utime();
 echo $config['project_name_version']." Poller\n";
-echo `git log -n 1|grep 'commit '`."\n";
+echo get_last_commit()."\n";
 
 $options = getopt('h:m:i:n:r::d::a::');