diff --git a/bin/git-semvers b/bin/git-semvers
index 5b695feb9..5811c30a2 100755
--- a/bin/git-semvers
+++ b/bin/git-semvers
@@ -1,38 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# Originally from hangops slack
+# Author: Daniel Hoherd http://github.com/danielhoherd
 
 set -o pipefail
 set -e
 
-if [[ -n "$DEBUG" ]]; then
-  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-  if [[ "$(echo $DEBUG | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')" == "verbose" ]]; then
-    set -x
-  fi
-fi
-
-function debug() {
-  if [[ -n "$DEBUG" ]]; then
-    echo "$@"
-  fi
-}
-
-function echo-stderr() {
-  echo "$@" 1>&2  ## Send message to stderr.
-}
-
-function fail() {
-  printf '%s\n' "$1" >&2  ## Send message to stderr. Exclude >&2 if you don't want it that way.
-  exit "${2-1}"  ## Return a code specified by $2 or 1 by default.
-}
-
-function my-name() {
-  basename "$0"
-}
-
-function usage() {
-  echo "Usage: $(my-name) ARG ARG"
-}
-
 git tag -l "v*.*.*" --sort=-v:refname | awk -F. '!seen[$1,$2]++'