diff --git a/contrib/examples/git-svnimport.perl b/contrib/examples/git-svnimport.perl
index 4576c4a862..ead4c04d3f 100755
--- a/contrib/examples/git-svnimport.perl
+++ b/contrib/examples/git-svnimport.perl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 # This tool is copyright (c) 2005, Matthias Urlichs.
 # It is released under the Gnu Public License, version 2.
diff --git a/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl b/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
index 3a5da4ab00..7f3afa5ac4 100755
--- a/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
+++ b/contrib/fast-import/import-directories.perl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 #
 # Copyright 2008-2009 Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
 #
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ by whitespace or other characters.
 
 # Globals
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use integer;
 my $crlfmode = 0;
 my @revs;
diff --git a/git-add--interactive.perl b/git-add--interactive.perl
index a96fb53156..77f60fa396 100755
--- a/git-add--interactive.perl
+++ b/git-add--interactive.perl
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use 5.008;
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use Git;
 
 binmode(STDOUT, ":raw");
diff --git a/git-archimport.perl b/git-archimport.perl
index 947638c38d..bc32f18d6d 100755
--- a/git-archimport.perl
+++ b/git-archimport.perl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 #
 # This tool is copyright (c) 2005, Martin Langhoff.
 # It is released under the Gnu Public License, version 2.
diff --git a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
index 9a8188bba7..39a426e067 100755
--- a/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
+++ b/git-cvsexportcommit.perl
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 use 5.008;
 use strict;
+use warnings;
 use Getopt::Std;
 use File::Temp qw(tempdir);
 use Data::Dumper;
diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index 53869fb644..249aeaf175 100755
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 
 # This tool is copyright (c) 2005, Matthias Urlichs.
 # It is released under the Gnu Public License, version 2.
diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 314e59e7a9..d10d869912 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+#!/usr/bin/perl
 #
 # Copyright 2002,2005 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
 # Copyright 2005 Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>