diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 712cef8..780bb05 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "setuptools-git-versioning>=2.0,<3"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
+[tool.setuptools-git-versioning]
+enabled = true
+
 [project]
 name = "co3"
 description = "Lightweight Python ORM for hierarchical storage management"
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ae514bc..0000000
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# -- sphinx docs --
-sphinx
-sphinx-togglebutton
-furo
-myst-parser
-sphinx-autodoc-typehints
-
-sqlalchemy
-numpy
-wcmatch
-
-pytest