BLD: setup.py version strings. handle shallow clones and installing from sdist #6217
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Travis exposed a corner case in the handling of version strings since the
git-describeshakeup.Previously (0.10.1), version strings were of the form:
Now that we use git-describe, here's the case breakdown:
the * cases were hard to see coming (I didn't) and so the current logic does not handle
them gracefully, and weird version strings result.
Behavior summary following this PR:
Slightly dangerous to merge shortly before a release, but it would be worse
to keep this brokenness for months until 0.14 IMO.