diff --git a/confluent_server/makesetup b/confluent_server/makesetup
index f20e2d25..de39ea18 100755
--- a/confluent_server/makesetup
+++ b/confluent_server/makesetup
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ cd `dirname $0`
 VERSION=`git describe|cut -d- -f 1`
 NUMCOMMITS=`git describe|cut -d- -f 2`
 if [ "$NUMCOMMITS" != "$VERSION"  ]; then
-    VERSION=$VERSION.dev$NUMCOMMITS.g`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
+    VERSION=$VERSION.dev$NUMCOMMITS+g`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
 fi
 echo $VERSION > VERSION
 sed -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/" setup.py.tmpl > setup.py