diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 4f331e3dfa..65d745c2e2 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -122,8 +122,7 @@ build-job:
     - PLATFORMS=linux/amd64
     - THREADS=8
     - DOCKER_TAG=ci-${CI_PIPELINE_IID}-${CI_COMMIT_SHA}
-    - make include/vg_git_version.hpp
-    - cat include/vg_git_version.hpp
+    - make version
     # Connect so we can upload our images
     - docker login -u "${CI_REGISTRY_USER}" -p "${CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD}" "${CI_REGISTRY}"
     # Note that A LOCAL CACHE CAN ONLY HOLD ONE TAG/TARGET AT A TIME!
@@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ production-build-job:
     - THREADS=8 # Oversubscribe since the ARM build will take way longer anyway.
     # Determine what we should be tagging vg Dockers as. If we're running on a Git tag we want to use that. Otherwise push over the tag we made already.
     - if [[ ! -z "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}" ]]; then DOCKER_TAG="${CI_COMMIT_TAG}" ; else DOCKER_TAG="ci-${CI_PIPELINE_IID}-${CI_COMMIT_SHA}"; fi
-    - make include/vg_git_version.hpp
+    - make version
     # Make sure ARM emulation is available.
     - if [[ "${CI_BUILDKIT_DRIVER}" != "kubernetes" ]] ; then docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install all || true ; fi
     # TODO: deduplicate this code with normal build above
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a32bbfea8a..c0becd6407 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ $(shell echo "#define VG_COMPILER_VERSION \"$(shell $(CXX) --version 2>/dev/null
 $(shell echo "#define VG_OS \"$(shell uname)\"" >> $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp)
 $(shell echo "#define VG_BUILD_USER \"$(shell whoami)\"" >> $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp)
 $(shell echo "#define VG_BUILD_HOST \"$(shell hostname)\"" >> $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp)
-$(shell diff $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp >/dev/null || cp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp)
+$(shell diff $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp >/dev/null 2>/dev/null || cp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp)
 $(shell rm -f $(SRC_DIR)/vg_environment_version.hpp.tmp)
 
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