diff --git a/.git_archival.txt b/.git_archival.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8fb235d704
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git_archival.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+node: $Format:%H$
+node-date: $Format:%cI$
+describe-name: $Format:%(describe:tags=true,match=*[0-9]*)$
+ref-names: $Format:%D$
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 82d852900b..776405a339 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # do not show up detailed difference on GitHub
 source/3rdparty/* linguist-generated=true
 source/3rdparty/README.md linguist-generated=false
+.git_archival.txt  export-subst