diff --git a/hack/verify-description.sh b/hack/verify-description.sh
index b65e06e9fbf..738034e48cd 100755
--- a/hack/verify-description.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-description.sh
@@ -34,17 +34,22 @@ find_files() {
         -o -wholename '*/third_party/*' \
         -o -wholename '*/Godeps/*' \
       \) -prune \
-    \) -name '*.go'
+    \) -wholename '*pkg/api/v*/types.go'
 }
 
-files=`find_files | egrep "pkg/api/v.[^/]*/types\.go"`
+if [[ $# -eq 0 ]]; then
+  files=`find_files | egrep "pkg/api/v.[^/]*/types\.go"`
+else
+  files=("${@}")
+fi
 
-for file in $files
-do
-    if [[ "$("${KUBE_ROOT}/hooks/description.sh" "${file}")" -eq "0" ]]; then
-      echo "API file is missing the required field descriptions: ${file}"
-      result=1
-    fi
+for file in $files; do
+  if grep json: "${file}" | grep -v // | grep -v ,inline | grep -v -q description: ; then
+    echo "API file is missing the required field descriptions: ${file}"
+    result=1
+  fi
 done
 
 exit ${result}
+
+# ex: ts=2 sw=2 et filetype=sh
diff --git a/hooks/description.sh b/hooks/description.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 4d079406b35..00000000000
--- a/hooks/description.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-# Copyright 2014 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Print 1 if the file in $1 is not in need of additional field descriptions, 0 otherwise.
-FILE="$1"
-
-if grep json: "${FILE}" | grep -v // | grep -v ,inline | grep -v -q description: ; then
-  echo "0"
-else
-  echo "1"
-fi
-exit 0
-
diff --git a/hooks/pre-commit b/hooks/pre-commit
index c3f05e50270..fa6a6882a87 100755
--- a/hooks/pre-commit
+++ b/hooks/pre-commit
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ files_need_description=()
 # Check API schema definitions for field descriptions
 for file in $(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter ACM | egrep "pkg/api/v.[^/]*/types\.go" | grep -v "third_party"); do
   # Check for files with fields without description tags
-  descriptionless=$("${KUBE_HOOKS_DIR}/description.sh" "${file}")
-  if [[ "$descriptionless" -eq "0" ]]; then
+  descriptionless=$(hack/verify-description.sh "${file}")
+  if [[ "$descriptionless" != "" ]]; then
     files_need_description+=("${file}")
   fi
 done
@@ -141,3 +141,5 @@ if [[ "${exit_code}" != 0 ]]; then
   echo "${red}Aborting commit${reset}"
 fi
 exit ${exit_code}
+
+# ex: ts=2 sw=2 et filetype=sh