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https://github.com/changaco/version.py

Automatic version numbers for git-based python projects
https://github.com/changaco/version.py

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Automatic version numbers for git-based python projects

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`version.py` saves you from having to hard-code the version number of your
project by getting it from git tags (directly or indirectly).

To use the script, simply copy it into your project and call `get_version()`
in your `setup.py` file:

from version import get_version

setup(
...
version=get_version(),
...
)

By default the tags that are considered to be version numbers are those that
start with a digit. If you use a prefix, for example a `v`, modify the `PREFIX`
constant in `version.py` accordingly.

You need to distribute the `version.py` file in your sdist packages
by adding the following line in the `MANIFEST.in` file:

include version.py

For the script to work within git archives (for example those automatically
generated by GitHub for each tag) you need to add the following line to the
`.gitattributes` file:

version.py export-subst

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Note: if you don't care about git archives, or you're looking for a solution
that works with Mercurial, then you can use [setuptools_scm][setuptools_scm]
instead.

[setuptools_scm]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_scm

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Compatibility: python 3.x and 2.7

Licence: [CC0 Public Domain Dedication](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)