diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 7704e95c..89ca725c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 ##############################
 
 # Uses the CMake module in this repo: https://github.com/rpavlik/cmake-modules
-# On Windows, this requires the msysgit install of Git, as the script won't find
-# the one bundled with GitHub for Windows.
+# On Windows, this requires Git for Windows to be installed.
 
 list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
 include(GetGitRevisionDescription OPTIONAL RESULT_VARIABLE GIT_MODULE_PATH)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d36f7ae8..ffa232af 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Installer and zip archive releases for the main LOOT application can be handled
 
 If the unofficial Korean and Simplified Chinese Inno Setup translation files are installed alongside the official translation files, then the installer script will also offer those language options. If they are not found, the installer will be built without them.
 
-If you have [Git for Windows (msysGit)](https://msysgit.github.io/) or [GitHub for Windows](https://windows.github.com/) installed and you're building from a clone of this repository, the archive script will give archives descriptive names using the output of `git describe --tags --long`. If you have [7-Zip](http://7-zip.org) installed, `.7z` archives will be created. Otherwise, archives will be named `LOOT Archive` and created as deflate-compressed zip files.
+If you have [Git for Windows](http://git-for-windows.github.io/) installed and you're building from a clone of this repository, the archive script will give archives descriptive names using the output of `git describe --tags --long`. If you have [7-Zip](http://7-zip.org) installed, `.7z` archives will be created. Otherwise, archives will be named `LOOT Archive` and created as deflate-compressed zip files.
 
 ## Snapshot Builds
 
diff --git a/src/archive.py b/src/archive.py
index 21574f1f..502c9122 100644
--- a/src/archive.py
+++ b/src/archive.py
@@ -67,16 +67,7 @@ def which(cmd):
                 exe_path = p
 
     if not exe_path:
-        # Now look in likely paths, depending on what cmd is.
-        if cmd == 'git.exe':
-            # Git wasn't found in PATH, do a search (in GitHub install location).
-            github = os.path.join( os.getenv('LOCALAPPDATA'), 'GitHub' )
-            for folder, subdirs, files in os.walk(github):
-                for subdir in subdirs:
-                    # Check for a <github>\<subdir>\cmd\git.exe
-                    if os.path.exists( os.path.join( folder, subdir, 'cmd', 'git.exe') ):
-                        exe_path = os.path.join( folder, subdir, 'cmd', 'git.exe')
-        elif cmd == '7z.exe':
+        if cmd == '7z.exe':
             sevenzip_path = os.path.join('C:\\', 'Program Files', '7-Zip', '7z.exe')
             if os.path.exists(sevenzip_path):
                 exe_path = sevenzip_path