How to state in requirements txt a direct github source

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I ve installed a library using the command pip install git git   github com mozilla elasticutils git  which installs it directly from a Github repository   This works fine and I want to have that dependency in my requirements txt   I ve looked at other tickets like this but that didn t solve my problem   If I put something like -f git git   github com mozilla elasticutils git elasticutils  0 7 dev  in the requirements txt file  a pip install -r requirements txt results in the following output  Downloading unpacking elasticutils  0 7 dev  from -r requirements txt  line 20     Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement elasticutils  0 7 dev  from -r requirements txt  line 20    from versions    No distributions matching the version for elasticutils  0 7 dev  from -r requirements txt  line 20    The documentation of the requirements file does not mention links using the git git protocol specifier  so maybe this is just not supported  Does anybody have a solution for my problem

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requirements txt allows the following ways of specifying a dependency on a package in a git repository as of pip 7 0 1  -e  git git   git myproject org SomeProject egg SomeProject  -e  git https   git myproject org SomeProject egg SomeProject  -e  git ssh   git myproject org SomeProject egg SomeProject -e git git git myproject org SomeProject egg SomeProject  deprecated as of Jan 2020   For Github that means you can do  notice the omitted -e   git git   github com mozilla elasticutils git egg elasticutils  Why the extra answer  I got somewhat confused by the -e flag in the other answers so here s my clarification  The -e or --editable flag means that the package is installed in  lt venv path gt  src SomeProject and thus not in the deeply buried  lt venv path gt  lib pythonX X site-packages SomeProject it would otherwise be placed in 2 Documentation  1 https   pip readthedocs org en stable reference pip install  git 2 https   pip readthedocs org en stable reference pip install  vcs-support

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Since pip v1 5   released Jan 1 2014  CHANGELOG  PR  you may also specify a subdirectory of a git repo to contain your module   The syntax looks like this   pip install -e git https   git repo some repo git egg my subdir pkg amp subdirectory my subdir pkg   install a python package from a repo subdirectory   Note  As a pip module author  ideally you d probably want to publish your module in it s own top-level repo if you can  Yet this feature is helpful for some pre-existing repos that contain python modules in subdirectories   You might be forced to install them this way if they are not published to pypi too

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Editable    packages syntax can be used in requirements txt to import packages from a variety of VCS  git  hg  bzr  svn    -e git   github com mozilla elasticutils git egg elasticutils   Also  it is possible to point to particular commit   -e git   github com mozilla elasticutils git 000b14389171a9f0d7d713466b32bc649b0bed8e egg elasticutils

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Normally your requirements txt file would look something like this   package-one  1 9 4 package-two  3 7 1 package-three  1 0 1       To specify a Github repo  you do not need the package-name   convention    The examples below update package-two using a GitHub repo  The text between   and   denotes the specifics of the package   Specify commit hash  41b95ec in the context of updated requirements txt    package-one  1 9 4 git git   github com path to package-two 41b95ec egg package-two package-three  1 0 1   Specify branch name  master    git git   github com path to package-two master egg package-two   Specify tag  0 1    git git   github com path to package-two 0 1 egg package-two   Specify release  3 7 1    git git   github com path to package-two releases tag v3 7 1 egg package-two   Note that  egg package-two is not a comment here  it is to explicitly state the package name  This blog post has some more discussion on the topic

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I m finding that it s kind of tricky to get pip3  v9 0 1  as installed by Ubuntu 18 04 s package manager  to actually install the thing I tell it to install  I m posting this answer to save anyone s time who runs into this problem   Putting this into a requirements txt file failed   git git   github com myname myrepo git my-branch egg eggname   By  failed  I mean that while it downloaded the code from Git  it ended up installing the original version of the code  as found on PyPi  instead of the code in the repo on that branch   However  installing the commmit instead of the branch name works   git git   github com myname myrepo git d27d07c9e862feb939e56d0df19d5733ea7b4f4d egg eggname

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Github has a zip endpoint that in my opinion is preferable to using the git protocol  The advantages are   You don t have to specify  egg  lt project name gt  Git doesn t need to be installed in your environment  which is nice for containerized environments It works much better with pip hashing The URL structure is easier to remember and more discoverable  You usually want requirements txt entries to look like this  e g  without the -e prefix  https   github com org package archive 1a58aa586efd4bca37f2cfb9d9348958986aab6c zip  To install from main branch  https   github com org package archive main zip

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First  install with git git or git https  in any way you know  Example of installing kronok s branch of the brabeion project   pip install -e git https   github com kronok brabeion git 12efe6aa06b85ae5ff725d3033e38f624e0a616f egg brabeion   Second  use pip freeze  gt  requirements txt to get the right thing in your requirements txt  In this case  you will get  -e git https   github com kronok brabeion git 12efe6aa06b85ae5ff725d3033e38f624e0a616f egg brabeion-master   Third  test the result   pip uninstall brabeion pip install -r requirements txt

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