diff --git a/Version/Version.csproj b/Version/Version.csproj
index 31ca91b88d..3b7c9e3101 100644
--- a/Version/Version.csproj
+++ b/Version/Version.csproj
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 		<PlatformTarget>AnyCPU</PlatformTarget>
 		<TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
 	</PropertyGroup>
+	<ItemGroup>
+		<Compile Include="svnrev.cs" /><!-- Not checked-in, but needs to be added to the compile list which is generated before the pre-build event, so this will make MSBuild pretend it's there when cloning. -->
+	</ItemGroup>
 	<Target Name="Build">
 		<!-- when is this called? it's never run and failed on Linux -->
 		<Exec Command="&quot;$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\subwcrev.bat&quot; $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" Condition=" '$(OS)' == 'Windows_NT' " WorkingDirectory="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" />
diff --git a/Version/svnrev.cs b/Version/svnrev.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index a0128da618..0000000000
--- a/Version/svnrev.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-// This file will get overwritten by a pre-build target defined in Version.csproj.