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get last git tag from inside sphinx conf.py
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last_tag.py
import subprocess as sp
from shlex import split
def get_last_tag():
"""
Get the last tag value from git.
"""
git_tag_str = "git describe --abbrev=0 --tags"
return sp.check_output(split(git_tag_str), text=True).strip()
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