diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index eb86972..f27fc48 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -77,6 +77,22 @@
 	  object and source tree, in that order.  Your total string can
 	  be a maximum of 64 characters.
 
+config LOCALVERSION_AUTO
+	bool "Automatically append version information to the version string"
+	default y
+	help
+	  This will try to automatically determine if the current tree is a
+	  release tree by looking for git tags that
+	  belong to the current top of tree revision.
+
+	  A string of the format -gxxxxxxxx will be added to the localversion
+	  if a git based tree is found.  The string generated by this will be
+	  appended after any matching localversion* files, and after the value
+	  set in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION
+
+	  Note: This requires Perl, and a git repository, but not necessarily
+	  the git or cogito tools to be installed.
+
 config SWAP
 	bool "Support for paging of anonymous memory (swap)"
 	depends on MMU