This is the monorepo for the setuptools-scm ecosystem, containing two main projects:

The main package that extracts Python package versions from Git or Mercurial metadata and provides setuptools integration.

Read setuptools-scm documentation →

Core VCS versioning functionality extracted as a standalone library that can be used independently of setuptools.

Read vcs-versioning documentation →

This workspace uses uv for dependency management.

# Install all packages with all dependency groups (tests, docs, etc.)
uv sync --all-packages --all-groups

# Run all tests
uv run pytest -n12

# Run tests for setuptools-scm only
uv run pytest setuptools-scm/testing_scm -n12

# Run tests for vcs-versioning only
uv run pytest vcs-versioning/testing_vcs -n12

Documentation is shared across projects:

uv run mkdocs serve

• Documentation: https://setuptools-scm.readthedocs.io/
• Repository: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/
• Issues: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools-scm/issues

Both projects are distributed under the terms of the MIT license.