diff --git a/.git_archival.txt b/.git_archival.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fb235d7
--- /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 df37fe7b..6db853ec 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.H linguist-language=C++
 *.C linguist-language=C++
+.git_archival.txt  export-subst
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ad1b7501..a30ae4b2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-[build-system]
-requires = [
-    "setuptools",
-    "setuptools_scm",
-    "wheel",
-    "scikit-build",
-    "cmake",
-    # see https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build/releases/tag/0.13.1
-    "ninja; platform_system!='Windows'",
-]
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools",
+    "setuptools_scm",
+    "wheel",
+    "scikit-build",
+    "cmake",
+    # see https://github.com/scikit-build/scikit-build/releases/tag/0.13.1
+    "ninja; platform_system!='Windows'",
+]