no-local-version on release branches

[pmeier]

I'm using releases/* branches to check if my package is publishable on PyPI or not. Amongst others, I try to upload to TestPyPI.

The problem I'm facing is that even with version_scheme="release-branch-semver" all commits up to a tag are marked as development commit. Since they include a local identifier the upload is rejected. This is resolved after I create the tag, but I can't know beforehand if the upload will be rejected for another reason than the version.

My current workaround is to pre-install setuptools_scm and use get_version(version_scheme="release-branch-semver", local_scheme="no-local-version") to set SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION.

Would it be possible to add a local_scheme that uses no-local-version while on a release/* branch and otherwise behaves as the default?

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

It would be possible, my proposal however would be to have a env var which generally allows informed release pipelines to opt out of dev/local version tags to allow test artifact upload

[RonnyPfannschmidt]

closing as duplicate of #455 given the proposal will add a general env var for config overrides