diff --git a/src/ms3/cli.py b/src/ms3/cli.py
index 52d67150..2b5c30ff 100644
--- a/src/ms3/cli.py
+++ b/src/ms3/cli.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
     Parse,
     compute_path_from_file,
     get_git_repo,
+    get_git_version_info,
     make_coloring_reports_and_warnings,
 )
 from ms3._version import __version__
@@ -284,6 +285,19 @@ def transform_cmd(args):
             "-X (expanded), -F (form_labels), -E (events), -C (chords), -D (metadata)"
         )
         return
+
+    repo = get_git_repo(args.dir)
+    if repo is None:
+        version_info = None
+    elif repo.is_dirty():
+        print(
+            "The repository is dirty. Please commit or stash your changes before running ms3 transform. This is "
+            "important because the version information in the JSON descriptor(s) needs to be consistent with the "
+            "repository state."
+        )
+        return
+    else:
+        version_info = get_git_version_info(repo=repo)
     parse_obj = make_parse_obj(args, parse_tsv=True, facets=params)
     filename = os.path.basename(args.dir)
     func = transform_to_resources if args.resources else transform_to_package
@@ -300,6 +314,7 @@ def transform_cmd(args):
         zipped=not args.uncompressed,
         overwrite=args.safe,
         log_level=args.level,
+        custom_metadata=version_info,
     )
 
 
diff --git a/src/ms3/corpus.py b/src/ms3/corpus.py
index 0c4785b6..6425e22d 100644
--- a/src/ms3/corpus.py
+++ b/src/ms3/corpus.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from ms3.utils.functions import (
     compute_path_from_file,
     get_git_repo,
+    get_git_version_info,
     get_name_of_highest_version_tag,
 )
 
@@ -135,9 +136,6 @@ def __init__(
         assert os.path.isdir(directory), f"{directory} is not an existing directory."
         self.corpus_path: str = directory
         """Path where the corpus is located."""
-        self.repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None
-        """If the corpus is part of a git repository, this attribute holds the corresponding :obj:`git.Repo` object."""
-        self.repo = get_git_repo(directory, logger=self.logger)
         self.name = os.path.basename(directory).strip(r"\/")
         """Folder name of the corpus."""
         if (
@@ -150,6 +148,10 @@ def __init__(
         #     logger_cfg['level'] = 'w'
         super().__init__(subclass="Corpus", logger_cfg=logger_cfg)
 
+        self.repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None
+        """If the corpus is part of a git repository, this attribute holds the corresponding :obj:`git.Repo` object."""
+        self.repo = get_git_repo(directory, logger=self.logger)
+
         self.files: List[File] = []
         """
         ``[File]`` list of :obj:`File` data objects containing information on the file location
@@ -1386,6 +1388,17 @@ def get_present_facets(self, view_name: Optional[str] = None) -> List[str]:
             result.update(detected_facets.keys())
         return list(result)
 
+    def get_version_info(self, only_if_clean: bool = True) -> Dict[str, str]:
+        if self.repo is None:
+            self.logger.debug("No git repo, no version info.")
+            return {}
+        version_info = get_git_version_info(self.repo, only_if_clean=only_if_clean)
+        if only_if_clean and not version_info:
+            self.logger.info(
+                "Git repo is dirty and only_if_clean=True. Returning empty version info."
+            )
+        return version_info
+
     def get_view(self, view_name: Optional[str] = None, **config) -> View:
         """Retrieve an existing or create a new View object, potentially while updating the config."""
         if view_name in self._views:
@@ -3143,6 +3156,10 @@ def store_extracted_facets(
         self.logger.info(
             f"Extracting {len(facets)} facets from {n_scores} of the {self.n_parsed_scores} parsed scores."
         )
+        if frictionless:
+            version_info = self.get_version_info()
+        else:
+            version_info = None
         if target > 0:
             for piece, piece_obj in self.iter_pieces(view_name=view_name):
                 for file, facet2dataframe in piece_obj.iter_extracted_facets(
@@ -3181,6 +3198,7 @@ def store_extracted_facets(
                                 raise_exception=False,
                                 write_or_remove_errors_file=True,
                                 logger=self.logger,
+                                custom_metadata=version_info,
                             )
                         paths.append(descriptor_or_resource_path)
         if output_metadata:
diff --git a/src/ms3/operations.py b/src/ms3/operations.py
index 8dbc8f89..035f79b0 100644
--- a/src/ms3/operations.py
+++ b/src/ms3/operations.py
@@ -5,27 +5,25 @@
 from typing import Dict, Iterator, List, Literal, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import pandas as pd
-from ms3 import (
-    Corpus,
-    Parse,
-    make_valid_frictionless_name,
-    resolve_facets_param,
-    store_dataframe_resource,
-    store_dataframes_package,
-)
 from ms3._typing import AnnotationsFacet, TSVtype, TSVtypes
+from ms3.corpus import Corpus
 from ms3.logger import (
     MessageType,
     get_ignored_warning_ids,
     get_logger,
     temporarily_suppress_warnings,
 )
+from ms3.parse import Parse
 from ms3.utils import (
     capture_parse_logs,
     check_argument_against_literal_type,
     compute_path_from_file,
     fifths2name,
+    make_valid_frictionless_name,
     pretty_dict,
+    resolve_facets_param,
+    store_dataframe_resource,
+    store_dataframes_package,
     tpc2scale_degree,
     write_tsv,
 )
@@ -504,6 +502,7 @@ def transform_to_resources(
     raise_exception: bool = False,
     write_or_remove_errors_file: bool = True,
     log_level="i",
+    custom_metadata: Optional[dict] = None,
 ):
     logger = get_logger("ms3.transform", level=log_level)
     for df, facet, output_folder, prefix, msg in _transform(
@@ -530,6 +529,7 @@ def transform_to_resources(
             descriptor_extension="json",
             raise_exception=raise_exception,
             write_or_remove_errors_file=write_or_remove_errors_file,
+            custom_metadata=custom_metadata,
         )
         logger.info(msg)
 
@@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ def transform_to_package(
     raise_exception: bool = False,
     write_or_remove_errors_file: bool = True,
     log_level="i",
+    custom_metadata: Optional[dict] = None,
 ):
     logger = get_logger("ms3.transform", level=log_level)
     dfs, returned_facets = [], []
@@ -581,6 +582,7 @@ def transform_to_package(
         raise_exception=raise_exception,
         write_or_remove_errors_file=write_or_remove_errors_file,
         logger=logger,
+        custom_metadata=custom_metadata,
     )
 
 
diff --git a/src/ms3/piece.py b/src/ms3/piece.py
index 95f0b273..2ac16987 100644
--- a/src/ms3/piece.py
+++ b/src/ms3/piece.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
     compute_path_from_file,
     disambiguate_files,
     files2disambiguation_dict,
+    get_git_version_info,
     get_musescore,
     infer_tsv_type,
     load_tsv,
@@ -1787,6 +1788,15 @@ def store_extracted_facet(
             if unfold:
                 piece_name += "_unfolded"
             directory = compute_path_from_file(file, root_dir=root_dir, folder=folder)
+            version_info = None
+            if create_descriptor:
+                try:
+                    version_info = get_git_version_info(
+                        repo_path=file.directory,
+                        only_if_clean=True,
+                    )
+                except AssertionError:
+                    pass
             store_dataframe_resource(
                 df=df,
                 directory=directory,
@@ -1797,6 +1807,7 @@ def store_extracted_facet(
                 raise_exception=raise_exception,
                 write_or_remove_errors_file=write_or_remove_errors_file,
                 logger=self.logger,
+                custom_metadata=version_info,
             )
 
     # def store_parsed_scores(self,
diff --git a/src/ms3/utils/frictionless_helpers.py b/src/ms3/utils/frictionless_helpers.py
index 697963ed..763348ac 100644
--- a/src/ms3/utils/frictionless_helpers.py
+++ b/src/ms3/utils/frictionless_helpers.py
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ def store_dataframe_resource(
     raise_exception: bool = True,
     write_or_remove_errors_file: bool = True,
     logger=None,
+    custom_metadata: dict = None,
     **kwargs,
 ) -> Optional[str]:
     """Write a DataFrame to a TSV or CSV file together with its frictionless resource descriptor.
@@ -699,6 +700,8 @@ def store_dataframe_resource(
     if not frictionless:
         return resource_path
     try:
+        if custom_metadata is None:
+            custom_metadata = {}
         descriptor_path = make_and_store_resource_descriptor(
             df=df,
             directory=directory,
@@ -710,6 +713,7 @@ def store_dataframe_resource(
             include_index_levels=include_index_levels,
             creator=DEFAULT_CREATOR_METADATA,  # custom metadata field for descriptor, passed as kwarg
             logger=logger,
+            **custom_metadata,
         )
     except ValueError as e:
         descriptor_path = None
@@ -738,6 +742,7 @@ def store_dataframes_package(
     raise_exception: bool = True,
     write_or_remove_errors_file: bool = True,
     logger=None,
+    custom_metadata: Optional[dict] = None,
 ):
     """Write a DataFrame to a TSV or CSV file together with its frictionless resource descriptor.
     Uses: :py:func:`write_tsv`
@@ -774,6 +779,7 @@ def store_dataframes_package(
         name=piece_name,
         resources=[],
     )
+
     for df, facet in zip(dataframes, facets):
         resource_path = store_dataframe_resource(
             df=df,
@@ -797,6 +803,8 @@ def store_dataframes_package(
     if not frictionless:
         return
     package_descriptor["creator"] = DEFAULT_CREATOR_METADATA  # custom metadata field
+    if custom_metadata is not None:
+        package_descriptor.update(custom_metadata)
     package_descriptor_filepath = f"{piece_name}.datapackage.{descriptor_extension}"
     package_descriptor_path = os.path.join(directory, package_descriptor_filepath)
     store_as_json_or_yaml(
diff --git a/src/ms3/utils/functions.py b/src/ms3/utils/functions.py
index 675502aa..500cc9d9 100644
--- a/src/ms3/utils/functions.py
+++ b/src/ms3/utils/functions.py
@@ -1856,6 +1856,81 @@ def get_git_repo(
     return repo
 
 
+def get_git_revision(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None,
+    repo_path: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> str:
+    if repo is None:
+        repo = get_git_repo(repo_path)
+        assert repo is not None, "No git repo to get the version from."
+    else:
+        assert repo_path is None, "Pass either repo or repo_path, not both."
+    return repo.head.commit.hexsha
+
+
+@overload
+def get_git_tag(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo], repo_path: Optional[str], always: Literal[True]
+) -> str:
+    ...
+
+
+@overload
+def get_git_tag(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo], repo_path: Optional[str], always: Literal[False]
+) -> Optional[str]:
+    ...
+
+
+def get_git_tag(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None,
+    repo_path: Optional[str] = None,
+    always: bool = True,
+) -> Optional[str]:
+    """If always is set to True and no tags are found, the commit short hash is returned instead."""
+    if repo is None:
+        repo = get_git_repo(repo_path)
+        assert repo is not None, "No git repo to get the version from."
+    else:
+        assert repo_path is None, "Pass either repo or repo_path, not both."
+    if always:
+        return repo.git.describe(tags=True, always=always)
+    try:
+        return repo.git.describe(tags=True)
+    except Exception:
+        return
+
+
+def get_git_version_info(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None,
+    repo_path: Optional[str] = None,
+    only_if_clean: bool = True,
+):
+    if repo is None:
+        repo = get_git_repo(repo_path)
+        assert repo is not None, "No git repo to get the version from."
+    else:
+        assert repo_path is None, "Pass either repo or repo_path, not both."
+    if only_if_clean and repo.is_dirty():
+        return {}
+    return dict(
+        git_revision=get_git_revision(repo=repo),
+        git_tag=get_git_tag(repo=repo, always=True),
+    )
+
+
+def git_repo_is_clean(
+    repo: Optional[git.Repo] = None,
+    repo_path: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> bool:
+    if repo is None:
+        repo = get_git_repo(repo_path)
+        assert repo is not None, "No git repo to get the version from."
+    else:
+        assert repo_path is None, "Pass either repo or repo_path, not both."
+    return not repo.is_dirty()
+
+
 def get_ms_version(mscx_file):
     with open(mscx_file, encoding="utf-8") as file:
         for i, l in enumerate(file):
diff --git a/tests/test_metarepo_files/debugging.py b/tests/test_metarepo_files/debugging.py
index 9ec0aef2..a14724f3 100644
--- a/tests/test_metarepo_files/debugging.py
+++ b/tests/test_metarepo_files/debugging.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 """
 import os.path
 
-from ms3 import Parse, Score
+from ms3 import Parse
 from ms3.logger import get_logger
 from ms3.operations import transform_to_resources