diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e0e2b45..7711fae 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,26 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16)
 project(endgame-analyzer CXX)
 
+execute_process(
+        COMMAND git describe
+        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+        OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_DESCRIPTION
+        OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+)
+
+execute_process(
+        COMMAND git -c log.showsignature=false log -1 --format=%h
+        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+        OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_COMMIT_HASH
+        OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+)
+
+configure_file(
+  ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/include/version.h.in
+  ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/generated/version.h
+)
+include_directories(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/generated)
+
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall -Wpedantic -Werror")
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE} -O3")
diff --git a/include/command_line_interface.h b/include/command_line_interface.h
index b5b2d71..835a574 100644
--- a/include/command_line_interface.h
+++ b/include/command_line_interface.h
@@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ namespace Hanabi
      * and future game states, including suboptimal ones.
      */
     bool list_actions{false};
+
+    /**
+     * If true, prints version information of the program and exits immediately.
+     */
+    bool version_info{false};
   };
 
   /**
diff --git a/src/command_line_interface.cpp b/src/command_line_interface.cpp
index 261a368..5d3f9d2 100644
--- a/src/command_line_interface.cpp
+++ b/src/command_line_interface.cpp
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #include "null_buffer.h"
 #include "state_explorer.h"
 
+#include <version.h>
+
 #include "command_line_interface.h"
 #include "myassert.h"
 
@@ -36,6 +38,10 @@ namespace Hanabi
 
   int run_cli(CLIParms const & parms)
   {
+    if (parms.version_info) {
+      std::cout << "endgame-analyzer " << VERSION_GIT_DESCRIPTION << " (commit " << VERSION_GIT_COMMIT_HASH << ")";
+      return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+    }
     // We want to do this sanity check here again,
     // so that the run_cli method itself can ensure that arguments are fully valid
     // and we cannot run into crashes due to bad specified parameters
@@ -246,12 +252,19 @@ namespace Hanabi
               ("list-actions,l","List all actions (including suboptimal ones) of all turns after specified state.")
               ("all-clues", "Whenever evaluating a game state, evaluate it with all clue counts and output their "
                             "probabilities.")
-              ("quiet,q", "Deactivate all non-essential prints. Useful if output is parsed by another program.");
+              ("quiet,q", "Deactivate all non-essential prints. Useful if output is parsed by another program.")
+              ("version,v", "Print version information and exit.");
 
     bpo::variables_map vm;
     bpo::store(bpo::parse_command_line(argc, argv, desc), vm);
     bpo::notify(vm);
 
+    if (vm.count("version"))
+    {
+      parms.version_info = true;
+      return parms;
+    }
+
     if (vm.count("help"))
     {
       std::cout << "This program performs endgame analysis of Hanabi. It calculates optimum strategies\n"