#262 contains a fix for handling * on windows unfortunately this breaks detecting the correct version for me.

In our repository https://github.com/qcodes/qcodes all tags are prefixed with v and we have tag_prefix = v this used to work fine however with the latest release of versioneer we get versions reported as unknown + x

Looking at the generated git describe command we see

git describe --tags --always --long --dirty --match v*
v0.29.0-288-g9f93a1286

git describe --tags --always --long --dirty --match v\*
9f93a1286

git describe --tags --always --long --dirty --match v\\*
9f93a1286

so it would seem like the escape of * does not always work correctly.
removing the escaped prefix for windows restores normal functionality for us