diff --git a/.changeset/kind-beds-divide.md b/.changeset/kind-beds-divide.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f273e5ab2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/kind-beds-divide.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@changesets/git": patch
+---
+
+Fixed `getCurrentCommitId` so that the returned value doesn't contain quotation marks on some Windows machines.
diff --git a/packages/git/src/index.ts b/packages/git/src/index.ts
index 5af8d1ee7..2c65deaae 100644
--- a/packages/git/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/git/src/index.ts
@@ -292,9 +292,7 @@ export async function getCurrentCommitId({
 }: {
   cwd: string;
 }): Promise<string> {
-  return (
-    await spawn("git", ["show", `--format="%h"`, "--no-patch"], { cwd })
-  ).stdout
+  return (await spawn("git", ["rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD"], { cwd })).stdout
     .toString()
     .trim();
 }