Source code for pymchelper.version

import os
import subprocess


def git_version():
    """
    Inspired by https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/setup.py
    :return: the git revision as a string
    """
    def _minimal_ext_cmd(cmd):
        # construct minimal environment
        env = {}
        for k in ['SYSTEMROOT', 'PATH', 'HOME']:
            v = os.environ.get(k)
            if v is not None:
                env[k] = v
        # LANGUAGE is used on win32
        env['LANGUAGE'] = 'C'
        env['LANG'] = 'C'
        env['LC_ALL'] = 'C'
        result = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env).communicate()[0]
        return result

    try:
        out = _minimal_ext_cmd(['git', 'describe', '--tags', '--long'])
        GIT_REVISION = out.strip().decode('ascii')
        if GIT_REVISION:
            no_of_commits_since_last_tag = int(GIT_REVISION.split('-')[1])
            tag_name = GIT_REVISION.split('-')[0][1:]
            if no_of_commits_since_last_tag == 0:
                version = tag_name
            else:
                version = '{}+rev{}'.format(tag_name, no_of_commits_since_last_tag)
        else:
            version = "Unknown"
    except OSError:
        version = "Unknown"

    return version