Hey I'm trying to make a plugin to get the version from git. I have a

@rule

that returns

SetupKwargs

. The problem I'm having is it doesn't look like I can run git in the project root when using a normal

Process

. But when using an

InteractiveProcess

I have to use

@goal_rule

which isn't compatible with

SetupKwargs

. How do I go about this?

I’m not sure how this all works, but there’s a

vcs_version

target that interacts with git in order to extract information. Useful pieces to look at could be: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/b4334427b07bd057034718d3b7b8ea013b9a9bf1/src/python/pants/backend/python/util_rules/vcs_versioning.py#L62 https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/blob/main/src/python/pants/vcs/git.py as a start..

Thanks for pointing me to this code. This is way to complicated, especially for the amount of documentation available. I'm just gonna use

subprocess.run

.

Please do leave comments in your code about the gotchas in that case (as this is not recommended), as it will not work if you ever start using remote execution for instance. 😉

Thanks! Good to know.