diff --git a/find_posts.py b/find_posts.py
index 0a8ad0bc..8b9041b4 100644
--- a/find_posts.py
+++ b/find_posts.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 import time
 import argparse
 import uuid
-import git
 import defusedxml.ElementTree as ET
 
 argparser=argparse.ArgumentParser()
@@ -1247,16 +1246,7 @@ def set_server_apis(server):
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     start = datetime.now()
 
-    repo = git.Repo(os.getcwd())
-
-    tag = next((tag for tag in repo.tags if tag.commit == repo.head.commit), None)
-
-    if(isinstance(tag, git.TagReference)) :
-        version = tag.name
-    else:
-        version = f"on commit {repo.head.commit.name_rev}"
-
-    log(f"Starting FediFetcher {version}")
+    log(f"Starting FediFetcher")
 
     arguments = argparser.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a938cc5e..b58be849 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 certifi==2022.12.7
 charset-normalizer==3.0.1
 docutils==0.19
-gitdb==4.0.10
-GitPython==3.1.31
 idna==3.4
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
 requests==2.28.2