diff --git a/community/gitlab/PKGBUILD b/community/gitlab/PKGBUILD
index 24e9c7a7f..df5f0158c 100644
--- a/community/gitlab/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/gitlab/PKGBUILD
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 
 pkgname=gitlab
 pkgver=9.4.3
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Project management and code hosting application"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/tree/master#README"
@@ -70,7 +70,16 @@ _logdir="/var/log/${pkgname}"
 _srcdir="gitlab-ce-v${pkgver}"
 
 prepare() {
-  cd "${srcdir}/${_srcdir}"*
+  cd "${srcdir}"
+
+  # Get first 7 characters from sha1 which has 40 characters in total
+  local revision=$(ls -d ${_srcdir}* | rev | cut -c 34-40 | rev)
+
+  cd "${_srcdir}"*
+
+  msg2 "Patching git revision in config/initializers/2_app.rb..."
+  sed -i -e "s|REVISION = Gitlab::Popen.popen(%W(#{config.git.bin_path} log --pretty=format:%h -n 1)).first.chomp.freeze|REVISION = \"${revision}\"|" \
+            config/initializers/2_app.rb
 
   export SKIP_STORAGE_VALIDATION='true'