diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e6e65cac4..62de0b42b 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ configure: configure.ac
 	$(RM) $<+
 
 # These can record GIT_VERSION
-version.o git.spec http.o \
+version.o git.spec \
 	$(patsubst %.sh,%,$(SCRIPT_SH)) \
 	$(patsubst %.perl,%,$(SCRIPT_PERL)) \
 	: GIT-VERSION-FILE
@@ -2274,9 +2274,6 @@ attr.sp attr.s attr.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 gettext.sp gettext.s gettext.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
 	-DGIT_LOCALE_PATH='"$(localedir_SQ)"'
 
-http.sp http.s http.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = \
-	-DGIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT='"git/$(GIT_VERSION)"'
-
 ifdef NO_EXPAT
 http-walker.sp http-walker.s http-walker.o: EXTRA_CPPFLAGS = -DNO_EXPAT
 endif
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 5cb87f16f..b61ac85d4 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "run-command.h"
 #include "url.h"
 #include "credential.h"
+#include "version.h"
 
 int active_requests;
 int http_is_verbose;
@@ -299,7 +300,7 @@ static CURL *get_curl_handle(void)
 		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 
 	curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
-		user_agent ? user_agent : GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT);
+		user_agent ? user_agent : git_user_agent());
 
 	if (curl_ftp_no_epsv)
 		curl_easy_setopt(result, CURLOPT_FTP_USE_EPSV, 0);