diff --git a/test/sharness/t0010-basic-commands.sh b/test/sharness/t0010-basic-commands.sh
index 785e5f831406..a77408227879 100755
--- a/test/sharness/t0010-basic-commands.sh
+++ b/test/sharness/t0010-basic-commands.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ test_expect_success "ipfs version output looks good" '
 	test_fsh cat version.txt
 '
 
+test_expect_success "version --commit succeeds" '
+	ipfs version --commit >version_commit.txt
+'
+
+test_expect_success "ipfs version --commit output looks good" '
+	egrep "^ipfs version [0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]-[0-9a-f]{7}" version_commit.txt >/dev/null ||
+	test_fsh cat version_commit.txt
+'
+
 test_expect_success "ipfs help succeeds" '
 	ipfs help >help.txt
 '
diff --git a/test/sharness/t0300-docker-image.sh b/test/sharness/t0300-docker-image.sh
index ec964cd0d7e1..3a67c2d89a49 100755
--- a/test/sharness/t0300-docker-image.sh
+++ b/test/sharness/t0300-docker-image.sh
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ test_expect_success "simple ipfs add/cat can be run in docker container" '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success "version CurrentCommit is set" '
+	actual=$(docker_exec "$DOC_ID" "wget --retry-connrefused --waitretry=1 --timeout=30 -t 30 \
+		-q -O - http://localhost:8080/version" | grep CurrentCommit | cut -d" " -f2)
+	test_cmp 7 ${#actual}
+'
+
 test_expect_success "stop docker container" '
 	docker_stop "$DOC_ID"
 '