diff --git a/release.rb b/release.rb
index a4219b91f138ca052488c7d6f9ad878f9d787cb4..1b8e0a75c4c21b96467d914bc60a389d0cb04e34 100755
--- a/release.rb
+++ b/release.rb
@@ -27,4 +27,3 @@
 # Upload rails tgz/zip
 
 # Create SVN tag
-`cd ..; svn cp trunk tags/rel_#{ARGV[1]}`