diff --git a/devel/gitinspector/Makefile b/devel/gitinspector/Makefile
index d49fdb3ca217..5063fb92703b 100644
--- a/devel/gitinspector/Makefile
+++ b/devel/gitinspector/Makefile
@@ -1,28 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	gitinspector
 PORTVERSION=	0.4.4
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 PORTREVISION=	4
 CATEGORIES=	devel python
 PKGNAMESUFFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMESUFFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	sunpoet@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Statistical analysis tool for git repositories
 WWW=		https://github.com/ejwa/gitinspector
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE.txt
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	git:devel/git
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 GH_ACCOUNT=	ejwa
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 
-post-patch:
-	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e '/data_files/d' ${WRKSRC}/setup.py
-
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/gitinspector/files/patch-setup.py b/devel/gitinspector/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71492ee02c6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/gitinspector/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- setup.py.orig	2016-02-03 13:25:05 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ setup(
+ 	],
+ 	packages = find_packages(exclude = ['tests']),
+ 	package_data = {"": ["html/*", "translations/*"]},
+-	data_files = [("share/doc/gitinspector", glob("*.txt"))],
+ 	entry_points = {"console_scripts": ["gitinspector = gitinspector.gitinspector:main"]},
+ 	zip_safe = False
+ )