diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index be369f5..219f6e0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -88,3 +88,9 @@ dist: clean ## builds source and wheel package
 
 install: clean ## install the package to the active Python's site-packages
 	python setup.py install
+
+setcommit:
+	bash set_commit_id.sh
+# 	commit=`git log -1 --pretty=format:%h`
+# 	sed -i.bak -E "s|COMMIT_ID = \".+\"|COMMIT_ID = \"$(commit)\"|g" erepublik/utils.py
+# 	mv erepublik/utils.py.bak erepublik/utils.py
diff --git a/set_commit_id.sh b/set_commit_id.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..c2102a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/set_commit_id.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+commit=$(git log -1 --pretty=format:%h)
+sed -i.bak -E "s|COMMIT_ID = \".+\"|COMMIT_ID = \"${commit}\"|g" erepublik/utils.py
+rm erepublik/utils.py.bak