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setuptools_scm extracts Python package versions from git or hg metadata instead of declaring them as the version argument or in a SCM managed file.

Additionally setuptools_scm provides setuptools with a list of files that are managed by the SCM (i.e. it automatically adds all the SCM-managed files to the sdist). Unwanted files must be excluded via MANIFEST.in.

basic usage

with setuptools

Note: setuptools_scm>=8 intentionally doesn't depend on setuptools to ease non-setuptools usage. Please ensure a recent version of setuptools (>=64) is installed.

pyproject.toml

[build-system]
requires = ["setuptools>=64", "setuptools_scm>=8"]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

[project]
name = "example"
# Important: Remove any existing version declaration
# version = "0.0.1"
dynamic = ["version"]
# more missing

[tool.setuptools_scm]

with hatch

Hatch-vcs integrates with setuptools_scm but provides its own configuration options, please see its documentation