Versioneer keeps returning 0+untagged

Just installed a fresh copy of non-vendored versioneer 0.24 in my git repo. The python3 setup.py version gives:

running version
keywords are unexpanded, not using
got version from VCS {'version': '0+untagged.36.gef18964', 'full-revisionid': 'ef1896454cff6769d92420c72737065076fc71a0', 'dirty': False, 'error': None, 'date': '2022-08-31T18:59:48+0200'}
Version: 0+untagged.36.gef18964
 full-revisionid: ef1896454cff6769d92420c72737065076fc71a0
 dirty: False
 date: 2022-08-31T18:59:48+0200

However git tag returns multiple tags in develop branch. What might be wrong?

[effigies]

Versioneer is really only set up to work with PEP-440 tags, so your dev-branch marking tag could become something like 2.0.1.dev1. From there, versioneer would create versions like 2.0.1.dev1+1.gd91a1f1.

If you want to keep your current tag style, you’re going to need a different tool (or contribute a patch here…). versioningit does have a lot of flexibility here. See https://versioningit.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuration.html#the-tool-versioningit-tag2version-subtable

[effigies]

You’re going to need your tag_prefix = v. Once, you do that (and reinstall _version.py), you should get something like:

$ python setup.py version         
/miniconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:544: UserWarning: The version specified ('2.0.1-develop.1+1.gd91a1f1') is an invalid version, this may not work as expected with newer versions of setuptools, pip, and PyPI. Please see PEP 440 for more details.
  warnings.warn(
running version
keywords are unexpanded, not using
got version from VCS {'version': '2.0.1-develop.1+1.gd91a1f1', 'full-revisionid': 'd91a1f1826a398e5989ed008a06e7c003a20fb42', 'dirty': False, 'error': None, 'date': '2022-08-31T14:08:43-0400'}
Version: 2.0.1-develop.1+1.gd91a1f1
 full-revisionid: d91a1f1826a398e5989ed008a06e7c003a20fb42
 dirty: False
 date: 2022-08-31T14:08:43-0400

This isn’t PEP-440 compliant, but there is no way in versioneer to strip off the -develop.1 suffix. Other tools like versioningit or setuptools_scm might have that kind of feature.