[Distutils] setuptools feature: tag_git_description like tag_svn_revision

[Jasper van den Bosch]

Alright, thanks

Jasper

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Hanno Schlichting <hanno at hannosch.eu>wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jasper van den Bosch <japsai at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Might it be an idea to have an option like 'tag_git_description' similar
> to
> > tag_svn_revision? A possible implementation could use git describe; such
> as
> > suggested by Douglas Creager in this gist:
> https://gist.github.com/300803. I
> > am currently using this for my packages, but it might be nice to
> integrate
> > it into setuptools.
>
> The automatic SVN support is pretty controversial in setuptools and at
> least for distribute we more or less decided to not expand it further.
>
> But there's various revision control specific packages, you can use:
>
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools-git
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_bzr
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_hg
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools_subversion (for SVN 1.7+)
>
> If you have git specific ideas, it's best to follow up with the
> maintainers of setuptools-git.
>
> Hanno
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