Hello. I was hoping to get some feedback if this change/enhancement makes sense to contribute back to pants. Currently the vcs_version target supports supplying a

tag_regex

which is great as it allows you to have a custom tagging scheme. However you’re unable to supply a value for

git_describe_command

which makes it unable to be directly used if you want said version to be generated only for tags with a specific prefix/suffix (IE 1 repo, multiple versions). For example the repository might have 2 projects. Each wanting to control their own versions using scm tagging. However with the current setup they would need to share a version because the setuptools_scm default is to use

git describe --dirty --tags --long --match '*[0-9]*'

to get the version to parse with

tag_regex

. right now i have a custom plugin based off vcs_version that allows me to specify this. But was wondering if this was something that the larger pants project would want/desire? The change is relatively simple (example patch here) but i also know the vcs_version plugin is intentionally limited so this kind of customization might not be desired.

Sorry, your original post must have gotten lost in the scrollback

awesome! i’ll work on getting a PR prepped