How to use the siphon._version.NotThisMethod function in siphon

def git_versions_from_keywords(keywords, tag_prefix, verbose):
    """Get version information from git keywords."""
    if not keywords:
        raise NotThisMethod("no keywords at all, weird")
    date = keywords.get("date")
    if date is not None:
        # git-2.2.0 added "%cI", which expands to an ISO-8601 -compliant
        # datestamp. However we prefer "%ci" (which expands to an "ISO-8601
        # -like" string, which we must then edit to make compliant), because
        # it's been around since git-1.5.3, and it's too difficult to
        # discover which version we're using, or to work around using an
        # older one.
        date = date.strip().replace(" ", "T", 1).replace(" ", "", 1)
    refnames = keywords["refnames"].strip()
    if refnames.startswith("$Format"):
        if verbose:
            print("keywords are unexpanded, not using")
        raise NotThisMethod("unexpanded keywords, not a git-archive tarball")
    refs = set([r.strip() for r in refnames.strip("()").split(",")])
    # starting in git-1.8.3, tags are listed as "tag: foo-1.0" instead of

"""Get version from 'git describe' in the root of the source tree.

    This only gets called if the git-archive 'subst' keywords were *not*
    expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
    version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
    """
    GITS = ["git"]
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        GITS = ["git.cmd", "git.exe"]

    out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root,
                          hide_stderr=True)
    if rc != 0:
        if verbose:
            print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")

    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
    describe_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["describe", "--tags", "--dirty",
                                          "--always", "--long",
                                          "--match", "%s*" % tag_prefix],
                                   cwd=root)
    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
    if describe_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
    full_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
    if full_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
    full_out = full_out.strip()

out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "--git-dir"], cwd=root,
                          hide_stderr=True)
    if rc != 0:
        if verbose:
            print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")

    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
    describe_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["describe", "--tags", "--dirty",
                                          "--always", "--long",
                                          "--match", "%s*" % tag_prefix],
                                   cwd=root)
    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
    if describe_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
    full_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
    if full_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
    full_out = full_out.strip()

    pieces = {}
    pieces["long"] = full_out
    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
    pieces["error"] = None

    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
    # TAG might have hyphens.
    git_describe = describe_out

    # look for -dirty suffix

rootdirs = []

    for i in range(3):
        dirname = os.path.basename(root)
        if dirname.startswith(parentdir_prefix):
            return {"version": dirname[len(parentdir_prefix):],
                    "full-revisionid": None,
                    "dirty": False, "error": None, "date": None}
        else:
            rootdirs.append(root)
            root = os.path.dirname(root)  # up a level

    if verbose:
        print("Tried directories %s but none started with prefix %s" %
              (str(rootdirs), parentdir_prefix))
    raise NotThisMethod("rootdir doesn't start with parentdir_prefix")

print("Directory %s not under git control" % root)
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse --git-dir' returned error")

    # if there is a tag matching tag_prefix, this yields TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty]
    # if there isn't one, this yields HEX[-dirty] (no NUM)
    describe_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["describe", "--tags", "--dirty",
                                          "--always", "--long",
                                          "--match", "%s*" % tag_prefix],
                                   cwd=root)
    # --long was added in git-1.5.5
    if describe_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git describe' failed")
    describe_out = describe_out.strip()
    full_out, rc = run_command(GITS, ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], cwd=root)
    if full_out is None:
        raise NotThisMethod("'git rev-parse' failed")
    full_out = full_out.strip()

    pieces = {}
    pieces["long"] = full_out
    pieces["short"] = full_out[:7]  # maybe improved later
    pieces["error"] = None

    # parse describe_out. It will be like TAG-NUM-gHEX[-dirty] or HEX[-dirty]
    # TAG might have hyphens.
    git_describe = describe_out

    # look for -dirty suffix
    dirty = git_describe.endswith("-dirty")
    pieces["dirty"] = dirty
    if dirty:
        git_describe = git_describe[:git_describe.rindex("-dirty")]

except NameError:
        return {"version": "0+unknown", "full-revisionid": None,
                "dirty": None,
                "error": "unable to find root of source tree",
                "date": None}

    try:
        pieces = git_pieces_from_vcs(cfg.tag_prefix, root, verbose)
        return render(pieces, cfg.style)
    except NotThisMethod:
        pass

    try:
        if cfg.parentdir_prefix:
            return versions_from_parentdir(cfg.parentdir_prefix, root, verbose)
    except NotThisMethod:
        pass

    return {"version": "0+unknown", "full-revisionid": None,
            "dirty": None,
            "error": "unable to compute version", "date": None}