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Created April 3, 2017 19:03 — forked from dcreager/version.py
Extract a setuptools version from the git repository
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Douglas Creager <[email protected]>
# This file is placed into the public domain.
# Calculates the current version number. If possible, this is the
# output of “git describe”, modified to conform to the versioning
# scheme that setuptools uses. If “git describe” returns an error
# (most likely because we're in an unpacked copy of a release tarball,
# rather than in a git working copy), then we fall back on reading the
# contents of the RELEASE-VERSION file.