get_git_version cannot find version number
django, git
Solution
This script is expecting a version number either from a git annotated tag (`call_git_describe()`), or by looking version number in a file named `RELEASE-VERSION`. It fails because none of these two things are found, so fix one of them.
Run this in your project to create annotated tag for the current commit:
git tag 1.0 -m "this is version 1.0"
I tend to prefer tagging for version management, but version in a text file is also good, YMMV.
Problem
In `version.py` there is a method `get_git_version()` when I execute `./manage.py runserver` this error is raised from `version.py` file raise ValueError("Cannot find the version number!") ``` def get_git_version(abbrev=4): # Read in the version that's currently in RELEASE-VERSION. release_version = read_release_version() # First try to get the current version using "git describe". version = call_git_describe(abbrev) # If that doesn't work, fall back on the value that's in # RELEASE-VERSION. if version is None: version = release_version # If we still don't have anything, that's an error. if version is None: raise ValueError("Cannot find the version number!") # If the current version is different from what's in the # RELEASE-VERSION file, update the file to be current. if version != release_version: write_release_version(version) # Finally, return the current version. return version def read_release_version(): try: f = open("RELEASE-VERSION", "r") try: version = f.readlines()[0] return version.strip() finally: f.close() except: return None ```