diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/ceres-solver/ceres-solver_2.0.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/ceres-solver/ceres-solver_2.0.0.bb
index 28d0868..7feba4a 100644
--- a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/ceres-solver/ceres-solver_2.0.0.bb
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-support/ceres-solver/ceres-solver_2.0.0.bb
@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@
 
 inherit cmake
 
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # otherwise https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/blob/0b748597889f460764f6c980a00c6f502caa3875/cmake/AddGerritCommitHook.cmake#L68
+    # will try to fetch https://ceres-solver-review.googlesource.com/tools/hooks/commit-msg durind do_configure
+    # which sometimes gets stuck (as there is no TIMEOUT set in DOWNLOAD)
+    # and we really don't need Gerrit's Change-Id tags when just building this
+    touch ${S}/.git/hooks/commit-msg
+}
+
 # We don't want path to eigen3 in ceres-solver RSS to be
 # used by components which use CeresConfig.cmake from their
 # own RSS