Overrides

pretend versions

setuptools_scm provides a mechanism to override the version number build time.

the environment variable SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION is used as the override source for the version number unparsed string.

to be specific about the package this applies for, one can use SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION_FOR_${NORMALIZED_DIST_NAME} where the dist name normalization follows adapted PEP 503 semantics.

config overrides

setuptools_scm parses the environment variable SETUPTOOLS_SCM_OVERRIDES_FOR_${NORMALIZED_DIST_NAME} as a toml inline map to override the configuration data from pyproject.toml.

subprocess timeouts

The environment variable SETUPTOOLS_SCM_SUBPROCESS_TIMEOUT allows to override the subprocess timeout. The default is 40 seconds and should work for most needs. However, users with git lfs + windows reported situations where this was not enough.