Including git version in setup.py files. (Requires at least _one_ tag in the repo) Normally used to make things like, "python setup.py sdist" give you a predictable name for files. Normally used with tags on the repo like 0.1 or 2.3.0. This fork will tag all non-git working folders as a "dev" version.

setup.py

from setuptools import setup
# from https://gist.github.com/dcreager/300803 with "-dirty" support added
from version import get_git_version

# From http://bugs.python.org/issue15881
try:
    import multiprocessing
except ImportError:
    pass

"""
This is the wopwop package, it does something nifty I'm sure
"""

setup(
    name='keypit',
    url="wop",
    maintainer="blah",
    maintainer_email="someone@example.org",
    version=get_git_version(),
    long_description=__doc__,
    package_dir={'': 'src'},
    packages=[
        'rme',
    ],
    include_package_data=True,
    setup_requires=['nose>=1.2'],
    tests_require=[
        'coverage',
        'Flask-Testing'
    ],
    test_suite='nose.collector',
    install_requires=[
        'Flask',
        'Jinja2',
        'Werkzeug',
        'pycrypto',
        'gunicorn'
    ]
)

version.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Author: Douglas Creager <dcreager@dcreager.net>
# with motifications by Ani Balasubramaniam <ani@anionline.me>
# This file is placed into the public domain.

# Calculates the current version number.  If possible, this is the
# output of “git describe”, modified to conform to the versioning
# scheme that setuptools uses.  If “git describe” returns an error
# (most likely because we're in an unpacked copy of a release tarball,
# rather than in a git working copy), then we fall back on reading the
# contents of the RELEASE-VERSION file.
#
# To use this script, simply import it your setup.py file, and use the
# results of get_git_version() as your package version:
#
# from version import *
#
# setup(
#     version=get_git_version(),
#     .
#     .
#     .
# )
#
#

__all__ = ("get_git_version")

from subprocess import Popen, PIPE


def call_git_describe(abbrev):
    try:
        p = Popen(['git', 'describe', '--abbrev=%d' % abbrev],
                  stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
        p.stderr.close()
        line = p.stdout.readlines()[0]
        return line.strip()

    except:
        return None


def is_dirty():
    try:
        p = Popen(["git", "diff-index", "--name-only", "HEAD"],
                  stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
        p.stderr.close()
        lines = p.stdout.readlines()
        return len(lines) > 0
    except:
        return False

def write_release_version(version):
    f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "w")
    f.write("%s\n" % version)
    f.close()

def get_git_version(abbrev=7):
    # First try to get the current version using “git describe”.

    version = call_git_describe(abbrev)

    # If that doesn't work, call it "dev"

    if version is None:
        version = "dev"

    if is_dirty():
        version += "-dirty"

    return version

if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(get_git_version())