Add support to overwrite version using VERSIONINGIT_PRETEND_VERSION #76
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I frequently encountered situations where I need to install a package without having the full version history available. For example when installing a single package from a large monorepo in a Docker image.
This PR adds support to overwrite the version using an environment variable
VERSIONINGIT_PRETEND_VERSION
, just likesetuptools_scm
: https://setuptools-scm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overrides/#pretend-versions.@jwodder, let me know what you think and then if you are open to this idea we can add docs.