diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index 8be7d82f6a..4b9b7b5f11 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: tesseract
-version: master
+version: git
 summary: open source optical character recognition engine
 description: |
   Tesseract has unicode (UTF-8) support, and can recognize more than 100