Make versioneer work from subdirectory

.gitignore

@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ umltest.status
 /cmake
 /.idea
 *~
+
+gitversion/*.pyc
+gitversion/__pycache__

gitversion/getversion.py

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 import versioneer
 
-print versioneer.get_version()
+print(versioneer.get_version())

gitversion/versioneer.py

@@ -1048,7 +1048,8 @@ def git_pieces_from_vcs(tag_prefix, root, verbose, run_command=run_command):
     expanded, and _version.py hasn't already been rewritten with a short
     version string, meaning we're inside a checked out source tree.
     """
-    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, ".git")):
+    # -- (MESSMER) CHANGED FOLLOWING LINE TO LOOK FOR ../.git instead of .git --
+    if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(root, "../.git")):
         if verbose:
             print("no .git in %s" % root)
         raise NotThisMethod("no .git directory")