[BLD] Add script that fails build if git tags do not exist

Author: qwhelan

.travis.yml

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ before_install:
   - pwd
   - uname -a
   - git --version
-  - git tag
+  - ./ci/check_git_tags.sh
   # Because travis runs on Google Cloud and has a /etc/boto.cfg,
   # it breaks moto import, see:
   # https://github.com/spulec/moto/issues/1771

ci/check_git_tags.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+set -e
+
+if [[ ! $(git tag) ]]; then
+    echo "No git tags in clone, please sync your git tags with upstream using:"
+    echo "    git fetch --tags upstream"
+    echo "    git push --tags origin"
+    echo ""
+    echo "If the issue persists, the clone depth needs to be increased in .travis.yml"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# This will error if there are no tags and we omit --always
+DESCRIPTION=$(git describe --long --tags)
+echo "$DESCRIPTION"
+
+if [[ "$DESCRIPTION" == *"untagged"* ]]; then
+    echo "Unable to determine most recent tag, aborting build"
+    exit 1
+else
+    if [[ "$DESCRIPTION" != *"g"* ]]; then
+	# A good description will have the hash prefixed by g, a bad one will be
+	# just the hash
+	echo "Unable to determine most recent tag, aborting build"
+	exit 1
+    else
+	echo "$(git tag)"
+    fi
+fi

pandas/tests/test_common.py

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import collections
+from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 from functools import partial
 import string
+from subprocess import check_output
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
@@ -117,3 +119,13 @@ def test_git_version():
     git_version = pd.__git_version__
     assert len(git_version) == 40
     assert all(c in string.hexdigits for c in git_version)
+
+
+def test_version_tag():
+    version = pd.__version__
+    try:
+        version > LooseVersion("0.0.1")
+    except TypeError:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "No git tags exist, please sync tags between upstream and your repo"
+        )