From ae423cfd104ad4fa47ae7aec526b913aa9b24ec7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Waldmann <tw@waldmann-edv.de>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2025 16:45:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: must have the release tags in the local repo, fixes
 #8582

---
 docs/development.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index 26af7c8be..2a7542ef6 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ to your local machine. The instructions for forking and cloning a repository
 can be found there:
 `<https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo>`_ .
 
+Make sure you also fetched the git tags, because without them, ``setuptools-scm``
+will run into issues determining the correct borg version. Check if ``git tag``
+shows a lot of release tags (version numbers).
+If it does not, use ``git fetch --tags`` to fetch them.
+
 To work on your contribution, you first need to decide which branch your pull
 request should be against. Often, this might be master branch (esp. for big /
 risky contributions), but it could be also a maintenance branch like e.g.