diff --git a/projects/rocr-runtime/runtime/hsa-runtime/cmake_modules/utils.cmake b/projects/rocr-runtime/runtime/hsa-runtime/cmake_modules/utils.cmake
index 5b4e73ce23..096b3de7b7 100644
--- a/projects/rocr-runtime/runtime/hsa-runtime/cmake_modules/utils.cmake
+++ b/projects/rocr-runtime/runtime/hsa-runtime/cmake_modules/utils.cmake
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ function ( get_version DEFAULT_VERSION_STRING )
 
     if ( GIT )
 
-        execute_process ( COMMAND git describe --dirty --long --match [0-9]*
+        execute_process ( COMMAND git describe --tags --dirty --long
                           WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
                           OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_TAG_STRING
                           OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE