From 65767d383d02c1ddd7200897969d14ea46bbbcce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ragland <jhrag@uw.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:26:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added vcs

---
 .gitignore                |  1 +
 pyproject.toml            |  7 +++++--
 src/pygenray/__about__.py | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e33c601..f760c6c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 dev/
 __pycache__/
+src/pygenray/__about__.py
 .DS_Store
 docs/_build/
 dist/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 72c9be9..dafa407 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["hatchling"]
+requires = ["hatchling", "hatch-vcs"]
 build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
@@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ Issues = "https://github.com/John Ragland/pygenray/issues"
 Source = "https://github.com/John Ragland/pygenray"
 
 [tool.hatch.version]
-path = "src/pygenray/__about__.py"
+source = "vcs"
+
+[tool.hatch.build.hooks.vcs]
+version-file = "src/pygenray/__about__.py"
 
 [tool.hatch.envs.types]
 extra-dependencies = [
diff --git a/src/pygenray/__about__.py b/src/pygenray/__about__.py
index 30c957b..b7de7b8 100644
--- a/src/pygenray/__about__.py
+++ b/src/pygenray/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025-present John Ragland <john.ragland@whoi.edu>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-__version__ = "0.0.2"
+# file generated by vcs-versioning
+# don't change, don't track in version control
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+__all__ = [
+    "__version__",
+    "__version_tuple__",
+    "version",
+    "version_tuple",
+    "__commit_id__",
+    "commit_id",
+]
+
+version: str
+__version__: str
+__version_tuple__: tuple[int | str, ...]
+version_tuple: tuple[int | str, ...]
+commit_id: str | None
+__commit_id__: str | None
+
+__version__ = version = '0.0.4.dev7+gd718bb386.d20260416'
+__version_tuple__ = version_tuple = (0, 0, 4, 'dev7', 'gd718bb386.d20260416')
+
+__commit_id__ = commit_id = None

From 5a1b0bd88658cf5cdf018e3914432eeb7097f53d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Ragland <jhrag@uw.edu>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:28:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] removed __about__.py

---
 src/pygenray/__about__.py | 24 ------------------------
 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/pygenray/__about__.py

diff --git a/src/pygenray/__about__.py b/src/pygenray/__about__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index b7de7b8..0000000
--- a/src/pygenray/__about__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-# file generated by vcs-versioning
-# don't change, don't track in version control
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-__all__ = [
-    "__version__",
-    "__version_tuple__",
-    "version",
-    "version_tuple",
-    "__commit_id__",
-    "commit_id",
-]
-
-version: str
-__version__: str
-__version_tuple__: tuple[int | str, ...]
-version_tuple: tuple[int | str, ...]
-commit_id: str | None
-__commit_id__: str | None
-
-__version__ = version = '0.0.4.dev7+gd718bb386.d20260416'
-__version_tuple__ = version_tuple = (0, 0, 4, 'dev7', 'gd718bb386.d20260416')
-
-__commit_id__ = commit_id = None