versioningit — Versioning It with your Version In Git
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versioningit
is yet another Python packaging plugin for automatically
determining your package’s version based on your version control repository’s
tags. Unlike others, it allows easy customization of the version format and
even lets you easily override the separate functions used for version
extraction & calculation.
Features:
Works with both setuptools and Hatch
Installed & configured through PEP 518’s
pyproject.toml
Supports Git, modern Git archives, and Mercurial
Formatting of the final version uses format template strings, with fields for basic VCS information and separate template strings for distanced vs. dirty vs. distanced-and-dirty repository states
Can optionally write the final version and other details to a file for loading at runtime
Provides custom hooks for inserting the final version and other details into a source file at build time
The individual methods for VCS querying, tag-to-version calculation, version bumping, version formatting, and writing the version to a file can all be customized using either functions defined alongside one’s project code or via publicly-distributed entry points
Can alternatively be used as a library for use in
setup.py
or the like, in case you don’t want to or can’t configure it viapyproject.toml
The only thing it does is calculate your version and optionally write it to a file; there’s no overriding of your sdist contents based on what’s in your Git repository, especially not without a way to turn it off, because that would just be rude.
Installation & Setup
versioningit
requires Python 3.8 or higher. Just use pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install
versioningit
and its dependencies:
python3 -m pip install versioningit
However, usually you won’t need to install versioningit
in your environment
directly. Instead, you specify it in your project’s pyproject.toml
file in the build-system.requires
key, like so:
[build-system]
requires = [
"setuptools",
"versioningit",
]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
[build-system]
requires = [
"hatchling",
"versioningit",
]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"
[tool.hatch.version]
source = "versioningit"
Then, you configure versioningit
by adding a [tool.versioningit]
table
to your pyproject.toml
. See “Configuration” for details, but
you can get up & running with just the minimal configuration, an empty table:
[tool.versioningit]
versioningit
eliminates the need to list an explicit version in
setup.py
, setup.cfg
, or pyproject.toml
(and any
explicit version you do list will be ignored when using versioningit
), so
you should remove any such settings in order to reduce confusion.
Note
If you’re specifying your project metadata via a [project]
table in
pyproject.toml`
, you need to set project.dynamic = ["version"]
in order for versioningit
to work.
Once you have a [tool.versioningit]
table in your pyproject.toml
—
and once your repository has at least one tag — building your project with
build or similar will result in your project’s version automatically being set
based on the latest tag in your Git repository. You can test your
configuration and see what the resulting version will be using the
versioningit
command (see “Command”).
Example Configurations
One of versioningit
’s biggest strengths is its ability to configure the
version format using placeholder strings. The default format configuration
looks like this:
[tool.versioningit.format]
# Format used when there have been commits since the most recent tag:
distance = "{base_version}.post{distance}+{vcs}{rev}"
# Example formatted version: 1.2.3.post42+ge174a1f
# Format used when there are uncommitted changes:
dirty = "{base_version}+d{build_date:%Y%m%d}"
# Example formatted version: 1.2.3+d20230922
# Format used when there are both commits and uncommitted changes:
distance-dirty = "{base_version}.post{distance}+{vcs}{rev}.d{build_date:%Y%m%d}"
# Example formatted version: 1.2.3.post42+ge174a1f.d20230922
Other format configurations of interest include:
The default format used by setuptools_scm:
[tool.versioningit.next-version] method = "smallest" [tool.versioningit.format] distance = "{next_version}.dev{distance}+{vcs}{rev}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.4.dev42+ge174a1f dirty = "{base_version}+d{build_date:%Y%m%d}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3+d20230922 distance-dirty = "{next_version}.dev{distance}+{vcs}{rev}.d{build_date:%Y%m%d}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.4.dev42+ge174a1f.d20230922
The format used by versioneer:
[tool.versioningit.format] distance = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3+42.ge174a1f dirty = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3+42.ge174a1f.dirty distance-dirty = "{base_version}+{distance}.{vcs}{rev}.dirty" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3+42.ge174a1f.dirty
The format used by vcversioner:
[tool.versioningit.format] distance = "{base_version}.post{distance}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3.post42 dirty = "{base_version}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3 distance-dirty = "{base_version}.post{distance}" # Example formatted version: 1.2.3.post42