diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 043ec8377b..5a524e0580 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1915,7 +1915,8 @@ $(SCRIPT_LIB) : % : %.sh GIT-SCRIPT-DEFINES
 
 git.res: git.rc GIT-VERSION-FILE
 	$(QUIET_RC)$(RC) \
-	  $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR=, $(wordlist 1,2,$(subst -, ,$(subst ., ,$(GIT_VERSION))))) \
+	  $(join -DMAJOR= -DMINOR= -DMICRO= -DPATCHLEVEL=, $(wordlist 1, 4, \
+	    $(shell echo $(GIT_VERSION) 0 0 0 0 | tr '.a-zA-Z-' ' '))) \
 	  -DGIT_VERSION="\\\"$(GIT_VERSION)\\\"" -i $< -o $@
 
 # This makes sure we depend on the NO_PERL setting itself.
diff --git a/git.rc b/git.rc
index 33aafb786c..49002e0d54 100644
--- a/git.rc
+++ b/git.rc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 1 VERSIONINFO
-FILEVERSION     MAJOR,MINOR,0,0
-PRODUCTVERSION  MAJOR,MINOR,0,0
+FILEVERSION     MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO,PATCHLEVEL
+PRODUCTVERSION  MAJOR,MINOR,MICRO,PATCHLEVEL
 BEGIN
   BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
   BEGIN