diff --git a/keymapper/logger.py b/keymapper/logger.py
index 5698234b..59e039ec 100644
--- a/keymapper/logger.py
+++ b/keymapper/logger.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ start = time.time()
 
 previous_key_spam = None
 
-COMMIT_HASH = ''
+COMMIT_HASH = ''  # overwritten in setup.py
 
 
 def spam(self, message, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e7228e83..d00c5a89 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ from setuptools.command.install import install
 class Install(install):
     """Add the current commit hash to logger.py."""
     def run(self):
-        commit = os.popen('git rev-parse HEAD').read().replace('\n', '')
+        commit = os.popen('git rev-parse HEAD').read().strip()
         if re.match(r'^([a-z]|[0-9])+$', commit):
             with open('keymapper/logger.py', 'r') as f:
                 contents = f.read()