diff --git a/src/mozilla_taskgraph/version.py b/src/mozilla_taskgraph/version.py
index 7a5469c..bc3bbdd 100644
--- a/src/mozilla_taskgraph/version.py
+++ b/src/mozilla_taskgraph/version.py
@@ -2,11 +2,9 @@
 
 from taskgraph.util.vcs import get_repository
 
-here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-
 
 def default_parser(params):
-    repo_root = get_repository(here).path
+    repo_root = get_repository(os.getcwd()).path
 
     with open(os.path.join(repo_root, "version.txt")) as f:
         return f.read().strip()