diff --git a/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh b/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
index c82eb163a..c849a672d 100755
--- a/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-wine/build-electrum-git.sh
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 NAME_ROOT=electrum
 PYTHON_VERSION=3.5.4
 
-if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
-    BRANCH="$1"
-fi
-
 # These settings probably don't need any change
 export WINEPREFIX=/opt/wine64
 export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
@@ -43,6 +39,10 @@ done
 popd
 
 pushd electrum
+if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
+    git checkout $1
+fi
+
 VERSION=`git describe --tags`
 echo "Last commit: $VERSION"
 find -exec touch -d '2000-11-11T11:11:11+00:00' {} +
diff --git a/contrib/build-wine/build.sh b/contrib/build-wine/build.sh
index 6c5785781..5f00e824b 100755
--- a/contrib/build-wine/build.sh
+++ b/contrib/build-wine/build.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Lucky number
 export PYTHONHASHSEED=22
 
+if [ ! -z "$1" ]; then
+    to_build="$1"
+fi
+
 here=$(dirname "$0")
 
 echo "Clearing $here/build and $here/dist..."
@@ -19,5 +23,5 @@ find -exec touch -d '2000-11-11T11:11:11+00:00' {} +
 popd
 ls -l /opt/wine64/drive_c/python*
 
-$here/build-electrum-git.sh && \
+$here/build-electrum-git.sh $to_build && \
 echo "Done."