diff --git a/.git_archival.txt b/.git_archival.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8fb235d704
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.git_archival.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+node: $Format:%H$
+node-date: $Format:%cI$
+describe-name: $Format:%(describe:tags=true,match=*[0-9]*)$
+ref-names: $Format:%D$
diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index b6115e6e49..57eb8a8807 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.py linguist-language=python
 *.ipynb linguist-documentation
+.git_archival.txt export-subst
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 62d997edd6..4eaaa1650a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ exclude_lines = [
 
 [tool.coverage.run]
 omit = [
-    "zarr/meta_v1.py",
+    "src/zarr/meta_v1.py",
     "bench/compress_normal.py",
 ]