diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b8dbe5d0..986063f8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -140,9 +140,6 @@ set(sparsepp_INCLUDE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/odgi/deps/sparsepp/sparsepp)
 set(flathashmap_INCLUDE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/odgi/deps/flat_hash_map)
 set(random_dist_INCLUDE ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/odgi/deps/cpp_random_distributions)
 
-file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/odgi/include)
-execute_process(COMMAND bash scripts/generate_git_version.sh include WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/odgi)
-
 # mmmulti (memory mapped multimap)
 ExternalProject_Add(mmmulti
   SOURCE_DIR "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/mmmulti"
diff --git a/deps/odgi b/deps/odgi
index 19cea997..17647980 160000
--- a/deps/odgi
+++ b/deps/odgi
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 19cea997e29ea590c1ccd75c1d039b2b1ed44f74
+Subproject commit 176479802a8a4d570f8d403ff37c6548baefc12d
diff --git a/scripts/generate_git_version.sh b/scripts/generate_git_version.sh
index 535ed1e7..bbc45f4d 100644
--- a/scripts/generate_git_version.sh
+++ b/scripts/generate_git_version.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 INC_DIR=$1
 
+# Go to the directory where the script is
+SCRIPT_DIR=$( cd -- "$( dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" &> /dev/null && pwd )
+cd "$SCRIPT_DIR"
+
 GIT_VERSION=$(git describe --always --tags --long)
 
 echo "#define SMOOTHXG_GIT_VERSION" \"$GIT_VERSION\" > "$INC_DIR"/smoothxg_git_version.hpp