diff --git a/packages/html-reporter/src/reportView.tsx b/packages/html-reporter/src/reportView.tsx
index 7d2bc6374a..e58afd085f 100644
--- a/packages/html-reporter/src/reportView.tsx
+++ b/packages/html-reporter/src/reportView.tsx
@@ -104,9 +104,6 @@ const MetadataView: React.FC<Metadata> = metadata => {
           icon='externalLink'
         />
       }
-      {metadata['revision.localPendingChanges'] &&
-        <p style={{ fontStyle: 'italic', color: 'var(--color-fg-subtle)' }}>This report was generated with <strong>uncommitted changes</strong>.</p>
-      }
       {metadata['generatedAt'] &&
         <p style={{ fontStyle: 'italic', color: 'var(--color-fg-subtle)' }}>Report generated on {Intl.DateTimeFormat(undefined, { dateStyle: 'full', timeStyle: 'long' }).format(metadata['generatedAt'])}</p>
       }
diff --git a/packages/playwright-test/src/ci.ts b/packages/playwright-test/src/ci.ts
index fb0e10ca1b..46a27dd7a6 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-test/src/ci.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-test/src/ci.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  * limitations under the License.
  */
-import { spawnAsync } from 'playwright-core/lib/utils/utils';
+import { createGuid, spawnAsync } from 'playwright-core/lib/utils/utils';
 
 const GIT_OPERATIONS_TIMEOUT_MS = 1500;
 const kContentTypePlainText = 'text/plain';
@@ -26,24 +26,16 @@ export interface Attachment {
 }
 
 export const gitStatusFromCLI = async (gitDir: string): Promise<Attachment[]> => {
-  const execGit = async (args: string[]) => {
-    const { code, stdout } = await spawnAsync('git', args, { stdio: 'pipe', cwd: gitDir, timeout: GIT_OPERATIONS_TIMEOUT_MS });
-    if (!!code)
-      throw new Error('Exited with non-zero code.');
-
-    return stdout.trim();
-  };
-
-  await execGit(['--help']).catch(() => { throw new Error('git --help failed; is git installed?');});
-  const [ status, sha, subject, authorName, authorEmail, rawTimestamp ] = await Promise.all([
-    execGit(['status', '--porcelain=v1']),
-    execGit(['rev-parse', 'HEAD']),
-    execGit(['show', '-s', '--format=%s', 'HEAD']),
-    execGit(['show', '-s', '--format=%an', 'HEAD']),
-    execGit(['show', '-s', '--format=%ae', 'HEAD']),
-    execGit(['show', '-s', '--format=%ct', 'HEAD']),
-  ]).catch(() => { throw new Error('one or more git commands failed');});
-
+  const separator = `:${createGuid().slice(0, 4)}:`;
+  const { code, stdout } = await spawnAsync(
+      'git',
+      ['show', '-s', `--format=%H${separator}%s${separator}%an${separator}%ae${separator}%ct`, 'HEAD'],
+      { stdio: 'pipe', cwd: gitDir, timeout: GIT_OPERATIONS_TIMEOUT_MS }
+  );
+  if (code)
+    return [];
+  const showOutput = stdout.trim();
+  const [sha, subject, authorName, authorEmail, rawTimestamp] = showOutput.split(separator);
   let timestamp: number = Number.parseInt(rawTimestamp, 10);
   timestamp = Number.isInteger(timestamp) ? timestamp * 1000 : 0;
 
@@ -53,7 +45,6 @@ export const gitStatusFromCLI = async (gitDir: string): Promise<Attachment[]> =>
     { name: 'revision.email', body: Buffer.from(authorEmail), contentType: kContentTypePlainText },
     { name: 'revision.subject', body: Buffer.from(subject), contentType: kContentTypePlainText },
     { name: 'revision.timestamp', body: Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(timestamp)),  contentType: kContentTypeJSON },
-    { name: 'revision.localPendingChanges', body: Buffer.from(!!status + ''), contentType: kContentTypePlainText },
   ];
 };
 
diff --git a/tests/config/globalSetup.ts b/tests/config/globalSetup.ts
index b148fefa5d..d21f563975 100644
--- a/tests/config/globalSetup.ts
+++ b/tests/config/globalSetup.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import * as ci from '@playwright/test/lib/ci';
 async function globalSetup(config: FullConfig) {
   config.attachments = [
     ...await ci.generationTimestamp(),
-    ...await ci.gitStatusFromCLI(config.rootDir).catch(() => []),
+    ...await ci.gitStatusFromCLI(config.rootDir),
     ...await ci.githubEnv(),
     // In the future, we would add some additional plugins like:
     // ...await ci.azurePipelinePlugin(),
diff --git a/tests/playwright-test/reporter-html.spec.ts b/tests/playwright-test/reporter-html.spec.ts
index d73453b5c7..5c4e6fe6bd 100644
--- a/tests/playwright-test/reporter-html.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/playwright-test/reporter-html.spec.ts
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ test('should include metadata', async ({ runInlineTest, showReport, page }) => {
       async function globalSetup(config: FullConfig) {
         config.attachments = [
           ...await ci.generationTimestamp(),
-          ...await ci.gitStatusFromCLI(config.rootDir).catch(() => []),
+          ...await ci.gitStatusFromCLI(config.rootDir),
           ...await ci.githubEnv(),
         ];
       };
@@ -711,6 +711,5 @@ test('should include metadata', async ({ runInlineTest, showReport, page }) => {
   await expect.soft(metadata).toContainText('William');
   await expect.soft(metadata).toContainText('shakespeare@example.local');
   await expect.soft(metadata.locator('text=CI/CD Logs')).toHaveAttribute('href', 'https://playwright.dev/microsoft/playwright-example-for-test/actions/runs/example-run-id');
-  await expect.soft(metadata).toContainText('uncommitted changes');
   await expect.soft(metadata.locator('text=Report generated on')).toContainText(/AM|PM/);
 });