diff --git a/hack/update-codegen.sh b/hack/update-codegen.sh
index 3e9e7df8b..2f9c32083 100755
--- a/hack/update-codegen.sh
+++ b/hack/update-codegen.sh
@@ -26,3 +26,17 @@ ${SEDNA_ROOT}/hack/generate-groups.sh "deepcopy,client,informer,lister" \
 ${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/pkg/client ${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/pkg/apis \
 "sedna:v1alpha1" \
 --go-header-file ${SEDNA_ROOT}/hack/boilerplate/boilerplate.generatego.txt
+
+# Check if Sedna home is different from the standard directory where GO projects are located
+if ! [[ "${GOPATH}/src/${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/" -ef "${SEDNA_ROOT}/" ]]; then
+    # Copy generated code into SEDNA_ROOT
+    echo "Warning: ${SEDNA_ROOT} not included in $GOPATH which is required by code-gen"
+    echo "Moving generated code from ${GOPATH}/src/${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/pkg/ to ${SEDNA_ROOT}/"
+    rsync -a ${GOPATH}/src/${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/pkg/{client,apis} ${SEDNA_ROOT}/pkg
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "Copy successful!"
+        rm -rf ${GOPATH}/src/${SEDNA_GO_PACKAGE}/pkg/{client,apis}
+    else
+        echo "Error during copy of the generated code!" >&2
+    fi
+fi
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