diff --git a/main/pom.xml b/main/pom.xml
index 720b0f64b..539992312 100644
--- a/main/pom.xml
+++ b/main/pom.xml
@@ -262,6 +262,32 @@
           </filesets>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>
+    <plugin>
+        <groupId>pl.project13.maven</groupId>
+        <artifactId>git-commit-id-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>2.2.4</version>
+        <executions>
+            <execution>
+                <id>get-the-git-infos</id>
+                <goals>
+                    <goal>revision</goal>
+                </goals>
+            </execution>
+        </executions>
+        <configuration>
+            <dotGitDirectory>${project.basedir}/.git</dotGitDirectory>
+            <prefix>git</prefix>
+            <verbose>false</verbose>
+            <generateGitPropertiesFile>true</generateGitPropertiesFile>
+            <generateGitPropertiesFilename>${project.build.outputDirectory}/git.properties</generateGitPropertiesFilename>
+            <format>json</format>
+            <gitDescribe>
+                <skip>false</skip>
+                <always>false</always>
+                <dirty>-dirty</dirty>
+            </gitDescribe>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
 
diff --git a/main/src/com/google/refine/RefineServlet.java b/main/src/com/google/refine/RefineServlet.java
index 5597aab83..27d16cd3b 100644
--- a/main/src/com/google/refine/RefineServlet.java
+++ b/main/src/com/google/refine/RefineServlet.java
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ package com.google.refine;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -52,9 +53,12 @@ import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;
 import com.google.refine.commands.Command;
 import com.google.refine.importing.ImportingManager;
 import com.google.refine.io.FileProjectManager;
+import com.google.refine.util.ParsingUtilities;
 
 import edu.mit.simile.butterfly.Butterfly;
 import edu.mit.simile.butterfly.ButterflyModule;
@@ -107,7 +111,15 @@ public class RefineServlet extends Butterfly {
             VERSION = ASSIGNED_VERSION;
         }
         if (REVISION.equals("$REVISION")) {
-            REVISION = "TRUNK";
+            ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
+            try {
+                InputStream gitStats = classLoader.getResourceAsStream("git.properties");
+                ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+                ObjectNode parsedGit = mapper.readValue(gitStats, ObjectNode.class);
+                REVISION = parsedGit.get("git.commit.id.abbrev").asText("TRUNK");
+            } catch (IOException e) {
+                REVISION = "TRUNK";
+            }
         }
         
         FULL_VERSION = VERSION + " [" + REVISION + "]";
diff --git a/packaging/pom.xml b/packaging/pom.xml
index 33c2d7348..83cd44710 100644
--- a/packaging/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/pom.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
                             <exclude name="WEB-INF/lib/icu4j*.jar"/>
                         </fileset>
                     </copy>
+                    <copy todir="${built.webapp.dir}">
+                        <fileset dir="${webapp.dir}">
+                            <include name="**/*.properties"/>
+                        </fileset>
+                    </copy>
                     <copy todir="${built.webapp.dir}/WEB-INF/lib/">
                         <fileset dir="${webapp.target}">
                             <include name="openrefine-main.jar" />
diff --git a/server/src/com/google/refine/Refine.java b/server/src/com/google/refine/Refine.java
index 7e6e32a9a..e0183fe85 100644
--- a/server/src/com/google/refine/Refine.java
+++ b/server/src/com/google/refine/Refine.java
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileFilter;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.net.BindException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
@@ -50,9 +49,6 @@ import java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import javax.swing.JFrame;
-import javax.swing.JMenu;
-import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
-import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
 
 import org.apache.log4j.Level;
 import org.mortbay.jetty.Connector;
@@ -66,7 +62,6 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import com.codeberry.jdatapath.DataPath;
 import com.codeberry.jdatapath.JDataPathSystem;
-
 import com.google.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutorAdapter;
 
 /**