diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
index df2f4a120..b1c33292b 100644
--- a/.dockerignore
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 .env
 .env.*
 .bundle
-.git
 log/*
 tmp/*
 vendor/bundle/*
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diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 3ce90303e..02c406e63 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ gem 'faraday_middleware-aws-sigv4', '~> 0.2.4'
 gem 'rack-utf8_sanitizer', '~> 1.6'
 gem 'oj_mimic_json', '~> 1.0', '>= 1.0.1'
 gem 'turnout', '~> 2.5'
-# gem 'paper_trail', '~> 10.2'
 gem 'audited', '~> 4.8'
+gem 'git', '~> 1.5'
 
 group :development, :test do
   gem 'rspec-rails', '~> 3.5', '>= 3.5.2'
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 839fda3b5..6d1cce32a 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
-    aasm (5.0.1)
+    aasm (5.0.2)
       concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
     actioncable (5.2.2)
       actionpack (= 5.2.2)
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ GEM
     arel (9.0.0)
     audited (4.8.0)
       activerecord (>= 4.0, < 5.3)
-    aws-eventstream (1.0.1)
-    aws-partitions (1.143.0)
+    aws-eventstream (1.0.2)
+    aws-partitions (1.144.0)
     aws-sdk-core (3.46.2)
       aws-eventstream (~> 1.0)
       aws-partitions (~> 1.0)
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ GEM
     aws-sdk-kms (1.13.0)
       aws-sdk-core (~> 3, >= 3.39.0)
       aws-sigv4 (~> 1.0)
-    aws-sdk-s3 (1.30.1)
+    aws-sdk-s3 (1.31.0)
       aws-sdk-core (~> 3, >= 3.39.0)
       aws-sdk-kms (~> 1)
       aws-sigv4 (~> 1.0)
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ GEM
       flipper (~> 0.16.1)
     gender_detector (0.1.2)
       unicode_utils (>= 1.3.0)
+    git (1.5.0)
     globalid (0.4.2)
       activesupport (>= 4.2.0)
     haml (5.0.4)
@@ -306,7 +307,7 @@ GEM
     minitest (5.11.3)
     money (6.13.2)
       i18n (>= 0.6.4, <= 2)
-    msgpack (1.2.7)
+    msgpack (1.2.8)
     multi_json (1.13.1)
     multipart-post (2.0.0)
     mysql2 (0.4.10)
@@ -519,6 +520,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   flipper (~> 0.16.0)
   flipper-active_support_cache_store
   gender_detector (~> 0.1.2)
+  git (~> 1.5)
   iso8601 (~> 0.9.0)
   json (~> 1.8, >= 1.8.5)
   jsonlint (~> 0.2.0)
diff --git a/config/initializers/_version.rb b/config/initializers/_version.rb
index 40f38280f..5e6c11b3a 100644
--- a/config/initializers/_version.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/_version.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 module Lupo
   class Application
+    g = Git.open(Rails.root, :log => Logger.new(STDOUT))
     VERSION = "2.3.43"
-    REVISION = `git rev-parse HEAD`
+    REVISION = g.object('HEAD').sha
   end
 end
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