Git revision numbers for setuptools packages
Adding snapshot versions to setuptools packages from SVN is easy. This post describes how to do it in GIT too.
Adding snapshot versions to your setuptools packages from SVN is easy, using the tag_svn_revision = true
options in setup.cfg. However, getting this working for GIT proved to be more difficult, as there’s no built in support. However, I finally settled on a bash script that does the job quite nicely.