Configuring so that pip install can work from github

Question

You need the whole python package, with a setup.py file in it.

A package named foo would be:

foo # the installable package
├── foo
│   ├── __init__.py
│   └── bar.py
└── setup.py

And install from github like:

$ pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/myuser/foo.git
or
$ pip install git+https://github.com/myuser/foo.git@v123
or
$ pip install git+https://github.com/myuser/foo.git@newbranch

More info at https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/pip_install/#vcs-support

I had similar issue when I had to install from github repo, but did not want to install git , etc.

The simple way to do it is using zip archive of the package. Add /zipball/master to the repo URL:

    $ pip install https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
Downloading/unpacking https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
  Downloading master
  Running setup.py egg_info for package from https://github.com/hmarr/django-debug-toolbar-mongo/zipball/master
Installing collected packages: django-debug-toolbar-mongo
  Running setup.py install for django-debug-toolbar-mongo
Successfully installed django-debug-toolbar-mongo
Cleaning up...

This way you will make pip work with github source repositories.

If you want to use requirements.txt file, you will need git and something like the entry below to anonymously fetch the master branch in your requirements.txt.

For regular install:

git+git://github.com/celery/django-celery.git

For "editable" install:

-e git://github.com/celery/django-celery.git#egg=django-celery

Editable mode downloads the project's source code into ./src in the current directory. It allows pip freeze to output the correct github location of the package.

Clone target repository same way like you cloning any other project:

git clone [email protected]:myuser/foo.git

Then install it in develop mode:

cd foo
pip install -e .

You can change anything you wan't and every code using foo package will use modified code.

There 2 benefits ot this solution:

1. You can install package in your home projects directory.
2. Package includes .git dir, so it's regular Git repository. You can push to your fork right away.

Here is the simple solution

With git

pip install git+https://github.com/jkbr/httpie.git

Without git

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/tarball/master

or

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/zipball/master  

or

pip install https://github.com/jkbr/httpie/archive/master.zip

Note: You need a python package with the setup.py file in it.