diff --git a/make/project.mk b/make/project.mk
index a1307b0454..d9729c7194 100644
--- a/make/project.mk
+++ b/make/project.mk
@@ -270,10 +270,11 @@ endif
 
 # If we have `version.txt` then prefer that for extracting IDF version
 ifeq ("$(wildcard ${IDF_PATH}/version.txt)","")
-IDF_VER := $(shell cd ${IDF_PATH} && git describe --always --tags --dirty)
+IDF_VER_T := $(shell cd ${IDF_PATH} && git describe --always --tags --dirty)
 else
-IDF_VER := `cat ${IDF_PATH}/version.txt`
+IDF_VER_T := `cat ${IDF_PATH}/version.txt`
 endif
+IDF_VER := $(shell echo "$(IDF_VER_T)"  | cut -c 1-31)
 
 # Set default LDFLAGS
 EXTRA_LDFLAGS ?=