Don't rely on .git to enable auto-build when importing from source tr…

…ee (since this won't work for source tarball distributions. Adds a new .astropy-root file that allows fairly unambiguous identification of the root of the source tree (better even than setup.py)
parejkoj · Jul 9, 2015 · 8231799 · 8231799
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diff --git a/.astropy-root b/.astropy-root
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+include .astropy-root
 include README.rst
 include CHANGES.rst
 

diff --git a/astropy/__init__.py b/astropy/__init__.py
@@ -216,9 +216,8 @@ def _initialize_astropy():
 
     # If this __init__.py file is in ./astropy/ then import is within a source dir
     source_dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-    is_astropy_source_dir = (
-            os.path.exists(os.path.join(source_dir, os.pardir, '.git')) and
-            os.path.isfile(os.path.join(source_dir, os.pardir, 'setup.py')))
+    is_astropy_source_dir = os.path.exists(os.path.join(source_dir, os.pardir,
+                                                        '.astropy-root'))
 
     def _rollback_import(message):
         log.error(message)