Dev template config not used?

[fleimgruber]

With a pyproject.toml

[tool.setuptools-git-versioning]
enabled = true
version_file = "VERSION"
count_commits_from_version_file = true
dev_template = "{tag}.post+git.{full_sha}"

[build-system]
requires = [ "setuptools>=41", "setuptools-git-versioning>=2.0,<3", "wheel" ]
build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"

and VERSION file having the content "0.0.1", on running uv run setuptools-git-versioning -vv I get this error:

error: Failed to generate package metadata for `my_package==0.0.1 @ editable+.`
  Caused by: Build backend failed to determine requirements with `build_editable()` (exit code: 1)

[stderr]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 483, in get_requires_for_build_editable
    return self.get_requires_for_build_wheel(config_settings)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 334, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
    return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 304, in _get_build_requires
    self.run_setup()
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\build_meta.py", line 320, in run_setup
    exec(code, locals())
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 117, in setup
    return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 145, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 319, in __init__
    _Distribution.__init__(self, dist_attrs)
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 279, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 677, in finalize_options
    ep(self)
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_git_versioning.py", line 256, in infer_version
    version = version_from_git(dist.metadata.name, **config, root=root)
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_git_versioning.py", line 618, in version_from_git
    return _sanitize_version(version)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\setuptools_git_versioning.py", line 469, in _sanitize_version
    result = str(Version(sanitized_version))
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\LeimgruberF\AppData\Local\uv\cache\builds-v0\.tmplgWeLE\Lib\site-packages\packaging\version.py", line 202, in __init__
    raise InvalidVersion(f"Invalid version: {version!r}")
packaging.version.InvalidVersion: Invalid version: '0.0.1.postNone+git.77864310.dirty'

where the configured dev_template seems to be ignored?

[dolfinus]

https://setuptools-git-versioning.readthedocs.io/en/stable/options/dev_template.html

Used if there are no untracked files, and current commit is not tagged.

Have you committed all the changes in your repo?

[fleimgruber]

Thanks for the quick answer!

I had untracked files, yes. After committing I get the expected behavior. It seems to me that the issue was because the "VERSIONS" file was untracked? If I create dummy untracked files after the mentioned commit, it still works as expected.