diff --git a/overviewer.py b/overviewer.py
index 8357212..ffc3882 100755
--- a/overviewer.py
+++ b/overviewer.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import subprocess
 import multiprocessing
 import time
 import logging
+import util
 
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,format="%(asctime)s [%(levelname)s] %(message)s")
 
@@ -50,21 +51,6 @@ helptext = """
 %prog -d <World # / Name / Path to World / Path to cache dir> [tiles dest dir]"""
 
 
-def findGitVersion():
-    if os.path.exists(".git"):
-        with open(os.path.join(".git","HEAD")) as f:
-            data = f.read().strip()
-        if data.startswith("ref: "):
-            with open(os.path.join(".git", data[5:])) as g:
-                return g.read().strip()
-        else:
-            return data
-    else:
-        try:
-            import overviewer_version
-            return overviewer_version.VERSION
-        except:
-            return "unknown"
 
 def main():
     try:
@@ -92,7 +78,7 @@ def main():
 
     if options.version:
         print "Minecraft-Overviewer"
-        print "Git version: %s" % findGitVersion()
+        print "Git version: %s" % util.findGitVersion()
         try:
             import overviewer_version
             if hasattr(sys, "frozen"):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5e5f809..9d2f7aa 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ if py2exe  is not None:
     class CustomPy2exe(py2exe.build_exe.py2exe):
         def run(self):
             try:
-                import overviewer
+                import util
                 f = open("overviewer_version.py", "w")
-                f.write("VERSION=%r\n" % overviewer.findGitVersion())
+                f.write("VERSION=%r\n" % util.findGitVersion())
                 f.write("BUILD_DATE=%r\n" % time.asctime())
                 f.write("BUILD_PLATFORM=%r\n" % platform.processor())
                 f.write("BUILD_OS=%r\n" % platform.platform())
diff --git a/util.py b/util.py
index 280bcab..f39798a 100644
--- a/util.py
+++ b/util.py
@@ -30,3 +30,21 @@ def get_program_path():
             return os.path.dirname(__file__)
         except NameError:
             return os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])
+
+
+
+def findGitVersion():
+    if os.path.exists(".git"):
+        with open(os.path.join(".git","HEAD")) as f:
+            data = f.read().strip()
+        if data.startswith("ref: "):
+            with open(os.path.join(".git", data[5:])) as g:
+                return g.read().strip()
+        else:
+            return data
+    else:
+        try:
+            import overviewer_version
+            return overviewer_version.VERSION
+        except:
+            return "unknown"