diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 1f1aa0e..9ad90db 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -11,4 +11,10 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: ruff
         args: [--fix, --exit-non-zero-on-fix, --show-fixes]
-
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: set-version
+        language: script
+        name: sets __version__ in viv.py
+        entry: ./scripts/bump-dev.sh
+        files: viv.py$
diff --git a/scripts/bump-dev.sh b/scripts/bump-dev.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..fea0dac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/bump-dev.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+TAG=$(git describe --tags --always --dirty=-dev --exclude 'latest')
+VERSION="${TAG#v}"
+sed -i "s/__version__ = \".*\"/__version__ = \"$VERSION\"/g" src/viv/viv.py
+git add src/viv/viv.py
diff --git a/src/viv/viv.py b/src/viv/viv.py
index 4e44054..c392257 100755
--- a/src/viv/viv.py
+++ b/src/viv/viv.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ from typing import (
 from urllib.error import HTTPError
 from urllib.request import urlopen
 
-__version__ = "23.5a1-dev"
+__version__ = "23.5a1-16-g445a523-dev"
 
 
 class Config: