Install specific git commit with pip

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You can specify commit hash, branch name, tag.

For the branch name and the tag, you can also install a compressed distribution. This is faster and more efficient, as it does not require cloning the entire repository. GitHub creates those bundles automatically.

hash:

$ pip install git+git://github.com/aladagemre/django-notification.git@2927346f4c513a217ac8ad076e494dd1adbf70e1

branch-name

With git

$ pip install git+git://github.com/aladagemre/django-notification.git@cool-feature-branch

or from source bundle

$ pip install https://github.com/aladagemre/django-notification/archive/cool-feature-branch.tar.gz

tag

with git

$ pip install git+git://github.com/aladagemre/[email protected]

or from source bundle

$ pip install https://github.com/aladagemre/django-notification/archive/v2.1.0.tar.gz

It is a not well-documented feature, but you can find more information at https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/vcs-support/

It's possible to automatically install a python package using the requirements.txt file on you project just by adding the following line:

package-name -e git+https://github.com/owner/repository.git@branch_or_commit#egg={package-name}

and run the command line:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

An extra comment to @hugo-tavares's answer:

If it's a private GitHub repository, you'll need to use:

pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/....

In your case:

pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/aladagemre/django-notification.git@2927346f4c513a217ac8ad076e494dd1adbf70e1

If you want to create an egg package, you can still use the same @branch_or_commit appendage: pip install git+ssh://[email protected]/myrepo.git@mybranch#egg=myeggscript