diff --git a/contrib/osx/make_osx.sh b/contrib/osx/make_osx.sh
index b6cf47625..2797de5f4 100755
--- a/contrib/osx/make_osx.sh
+++ b/contrib/osx/make_osx.sh
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ find "$VENV_DIR/lib/python$PY_VER_MAJOR/site-packages/" -type f -name '*.so' -pr
 info "Faking timestamps..."
 find . -exec touch -t '200101220000' {} + || true
 
-VERSION=$(git describe --tags --dirty --always)
+# note: no --dirty, as we have dirtied electrum/locale/ ourselves.
+VERSION=$(git describe --tags --always)
 
 info "Building binary"
 ELECTRUM_VERSION=$VERSION pyinstaller --noconfirm --clean contrib/osx/pyinstaller.spec || fail "Could not build binary"
diff --git a/contrib/osx/sign_osx.sh b/contrib/osx/sign_osx.sh
index 785f3b8e9..62730f932 100755
--- a/contrib/osx/sign_osx.sh
+++ b/contrib/osx/sign_osx.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ function DoCodeSignMaybe { # ARGS: infoName fileOrDirName
     codesign -f -v $deep -s "$CODESIGN_CERT" $hardened_arg "$file" || fail "Could not code sign ${infoName}"
 }
 
-VERSION=$(git describe --tags --dirty --always)
+# note: no --dirty, as we have dirtied electrum/locale/ ourselves.
+VERSION=$(git describe --tags --always)
 
 DoCodeSignMaybe "app bundle" "dist/${PACKAGE}.app"