diff --git a/code/controllers/subsystem/ticker.dm b/code/controllers/subsystem/ticker.dm
index b254efc3fe4..05f2c5a59a3 100644
--- a/code/controllers/subsystem/ticker.dm
+++ b/code/controllers/subsystem/ticker.dm
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM_DEF(ticker)
 		var/arguments = list()
 		if(GLOB.revdata.originmastercommit)
 			to_set += "commit_hash = :commit_hash"
-			arguments["commit_hash"] = GLOB.revdata.originmastercommit
+			arguments["commit_hash"] = GLOB.revdata.GetDatabaseCommitSha()
 		if(to_set.len)
 			arguments["round_id"] = GLOB.round_id
 			var/datum/db_query/query_round_game_mode = SSdbcore.NewQuery(
diff --git a/code/datums/helper_datums/getrev.dm b/code/datums/helper_datums/getrev.dm
index adb676acc2c..20ad08a77b6 100644
--- a/code/datums/helper_datums/getrev.dm
+++ b/code/datums/helper_datums/getrev.dm
@@ -41,6 +41,26 @@
 
 	return msg.Join("\n")
 
+/datum/getrev/proc/GetDatabaseCommitSha()
+	. = originmastercommit
+	if (commit == .)
+		return .
+
+	var/gh_url = CONFIG_GET(string/githuburl)
+	if(!gh_url)
+		return .
+
+	var/datum/http_request/request = new()
+	request.prepare(RUSTG_HTTP_METHOD_GET, "[gh_url]/commit/[commit]", "", "")
+	request.begin_async()
+	UNTIL(request.is_complete())
+	var/datum/http_response/response = request.into_response()
+
+	if (response.status_code >= 200 && response.status_code < 300)
+		return commit
+
+	return .
+
 /datum/getrev/proc/GetTestMergeInfo(header = TRUE)
 	if(!testmerge.len)
 		return ""