diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index 7c92ac30ce..04282fa5e3 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -996,10 +996,11 @@ sub git_header_html {
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" lang="en-US">
-<!-- git web interface v$version, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers\@vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke -->
+<!-- git web interface version $version, (C) 2005-2006, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers\@vrfy.org>, Christian Gierke -->
 <!-- git core binaries version $git_version -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="$content_type; charset=utf-8"/>
+<meta name="generator" content="gitweb/$version git/$git_version"/>
 <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow"/>
 <title>$title</title>
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="$stylesheet"/>
