diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion
index 365b3c2b8f43..eb30a84d6384 100755
--- a/scripts/setlocalversion
+++ b/scripts/setlocalversion
@@ -169,15 +169,6 @@ res="${res}${CONFIG_LOCALVERSION}${LOCALVERSION}"
 if test "$CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO" = "y"; then
 	# full scm version string
 	res="$res$(scm_version)"
-else
-	# append a plus sign if the repository is not in a clean
-	# annotated or signed tagged state (as git describe only
-	# looks at signed or annotated tags - git tag -a/-s) and
-	# LOCALVERSION= is not specified
-	if test "${LOCALVERSION+set}" != "set"; then
-		scm=$(scm_version --short)
-		res="$res${scm:++}"
-	fi
 fi
 
 echo "$res"