diff --git a/.meta/__new__/package/build_tests.toml b/.meta/__new__/package/build_tests.toml
index 411aa9ce..ec8bbb38 100644
--- a/.meta/__new__/package/build_tests.toml
+++ b/.meta/__new__/package/build_tests.toml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ namespaces = true
 [tool.versioningit.vcs]
 method = "git"
 match = ["${{tag.group.version.prefix}}[0-9]*.[0-9]*.[0-9]*"]
+default-tag = "${{tag.group.version.prefix}}0.0.0"
 
 [tool.versioningit.tag2version]
 rmprefix = "${{tag.group.version.prefix}}"