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very-good-setuptools-git-version
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Automatically set package version from Git. This is a re-release of setuptools-git-version with fixes and improvements.
Instead of hard-coding the package version in setup.py like:
setup(
name='foobar',
version='1.0',
...
)
this package allows to extract it from the underlying Git repository:
setup(
name='foobar',
version_format='{tag}.dev{commits}+{sha}',
setup_requires=['very-good-setuptools-git-version'],
...
)
FAQs
Automatically set package version from Git.
We found that very-good-setuptools-git-version demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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