diff --git a/common/src/scripts/saveVersion.sh b/common/src/scripts/saveVersion.sh
index 252874f6c323..3802b409c078 100644
--- a/common/src/scripts/saveVersion.sh
+++ b/common/src/scripts/saveVersion.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,10 @@ if [ "$revision" = "" ]; then
         revision=`git log -1 --pretty=format:"%H"`
         hostname=`hostname`
         branch=`git branch | sed -n -e 's/^* //p'`
-        url="git://${hostname}${cwd}"
+        url=$(git remote -v | grep -E 'apache.org|github.com[/:]apache/hive' | head -n 1 | awk '{print $2}')
+        if [ -z "$url" ]; then
+          url="Unknown"
+        fi
     elif [ -d .svn ]; then
         revision=`svn info ../ | sed -n -e 's/Last Changed Rev: \(.*\)/\1/p'`
         url=`svn info ../ | sed -n -e 's/^URL: \(.*\)/\1/p'`