diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b08444253dbaf..a1ebcc0a22960 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -259,10 +259,10 @@ In such cases, possible solutions are forcing the new feature to be used with
 qualified name in `Compat.jl` (e.g. use `Compat.<name>`) or
 reimplementing the old features on a later Julia version.
 
-If you're adding additional compatibility code to this package, the [`bin/version.sh`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/Compat.jl/blob/master/bin/version.sh) script is useful for extracting the version number from a git commit SHA. For example, from the git repository of `julia`, run something like this:
+If you're adding additional compatibility code to this package, the [`contrib/commit-name.sh`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/contrib/commit-name.sh) script in the base Julia repository is useful for extracting the version number from a git commit SHA. For example, from the git repository of `julia`, run something like this:
 
 ```sh
-bash $ /path/to/Compat/bin/version.sh a378b60fe483130d0d30206deb8ba662e93944da
+bash $ contrib/commit-name.sh a378b60fe483130d0d30206deb8ba662e93944da
 0.5.0-dev+2023
 ```
 
diff --git a/bin/version.sh b/bin/version.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 3d40b8d4742bd..0000000000000
--- a/bin/version.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# Needs to be run from a julia repo clone
-# First argument (optional) is a ref to the commit
-
-gitref=${1:-HEAD}
-
-ver=$(git show "$gitref:VERSION")
-major=$(echo $ver | cut -f 1 -d .)
-minor=$(echo $ver | cut -f 2 -d .)
-
-if [ $major = 0 -a $minor -lt 5 ]; then
-    # use tag based build number prior to 0.5.0-
-    last_tag=$(git describe --tags --abbrev=0 "$gitref")
-    nb=$(git rev-list --count "$gitref" "^$last_tag")
-    if [ $nb = 0 ]; then
-        echo $ver
-    else
-        echo "$ver+$nb"
-    fi
-else
-    topdir=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
-    verchanged=$(git blame -L ,1 -sl $gitref -- "$topdir/VERSION" | cut -f 1 -d " ")
-    nb=$(git rev-list --count "$gitref" "^$verchanged")
-    pre=$(echo $ver | cut -s -f 2 -d "-")
-    if [ $ver = "0.5.0-dev" ]; then
-        # bump to 0.5.0-dev was one commit after tag during 0.5.0-dev
-        nb=$(expr $nb + 1)
-    elif [ $ver = "0.5.0-pre" ]; then
-        # bump to 0.5.0-pre was 5578 commits after tag
-        nb=$(expr $nb + 5578)
-    fi
-    if [ -n "$pre" ]; then
-        echo "$ver+$nb"
-    else
-        echo $ver
-    fi
-fi