VCS Support#
pip supports installing from various version control systems (VCS). This support requires a working executable to be available (for the version control system being used). It is used through URL prefixes:
Git --
git+
Mercurial --
hg+
Subversion --
svn+
Bazaar --
bzr+
Supported VCS#
Git#
The supported schemes are git+file
, git+https
, git+ssh
, git+http
,
git+git
and git
. Here are some of the supported forms:
MyProject @ git+ssh://git.example.com/MyProject
MyProject @ git+file:///home/user/projects/MyProject
MyProject @ git+https://git.example.com/MyProject
Warning
The use of git
, git+git
, and git+http
schemes is discouraged.
The former two use the Git Protocol, which lacks authentication, and HTTP is
insecure due to lack of TLS based encryption.
It is also possible to specify a “git ref” such as branch name, a commit hash or a tag name:
MyProject @ git+https://git.example.com/MyProject.git@master
MyProject @ git+https://git.example.com/MyProject.git@v1.0
MyProject @ git+https://git.example.com/MyProject.git@da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709
MyProject @ git+https://git.example.com/MyProject.git@refs/pull/123/head
When passing a commit hash, specifying a full hash is preferable to a partial hash because a full hash allows pip to operate more efficiently (e.g. by making fewer network calls).
Mercurial#
The supported schemes are hg+file
, hg+http
, hg+https
, hg+ssh
and hg+static-http
. Here are some of the supported forms:
MyProject @ hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject
MyProject @ hg+https://hg.myproject.org/MyProject
MyProject @ hg+ssh://hg.myproject.org/MyProject
MyProject @ hg+file:///home/user/projects/MyProject
It is also possible to specify a revision number, a revision hash, a tag name or a local branch name:
MyProject @ hg+http://hg.example.com/MyProject@da39a3ee5e6b
MyProject @ hg+http://hg.example.com/MyProject@2019
MyProject @ hg+http://hg.example.com/MyProject@v1.0
MyProject @ hg+http://hg.example.com/MyProject@special_feature
Subversion#
The supported schemes are svn
, svn+svn
, svn+http
, svn+https
and
svn+ssh
. Here are some of the supported forms:
MyProject @ svn+https://svn.example.com/MyProject
MyProject @ svn+ssh://svn.example.com/MyProject
MyProject @ svn+ssh://user@svn.example.com/MyProject
You can also give specific revisions to an SVN URL, like so:
-e svn+http://svn.example.com/svn/MyProject/trunk@2019#egg=MyProject
-e svn+http://svn.example.com/svn/MyProject/trunk@{20080101}#egg=MyProject
Note that you need to use Editable VCS installs for using specific revisions from Subversion.
Bazaar#
The supported schemes are bzr+http
, bzr+https
, bzr+ssh
, bzr+sftp
,
bzr+ftp
and bzr+lp
. Here are the supported forms:
MyProject @ bzr+http://bzr.example.com/MyProject/trunk
MyProject @ bzr+sftp://user@example.com/MyProject/trunk
MyProject @ bzr+ssh://user@example.com/MyProject/trunk
MyProject @ bzr+ftp://user@example.com/MyProject/trunk
MyProject @ bzr+lp:MyProject
Tags or revisions can be installed like so:
MyProject @ bzr+https://bzr.example.com/MyProject/trunk@2019
MyProject @ bzr+http://bzr.example.com/MyProject/trunk@v1.0
Editable VCS installs#
VCS projects can be installed in editable mode (using the --editable option) or not.
The default clone location (for editable installs) is:
<venv path>/src/SomeProject
in virtual environments<cwd>/src/SomeProject
for global Python installs
The --src option can be used to modify this location.
For non-editable installs, the project is built locally in a temp dir and then installed normally.
Note that if a satisfactory version of the package is already installed, the
VCS source will not overwrite it without an --upgrade
flag. Further, pip
looks at the package version, at the target revision to determine what action to
take on the VCS requirement (not the commit itself).
The pip freeze subcommand will record the VCS requirement specifier (referencing a specific commit) only if the install is done with the editable option.
URL fragments#
pip looks at 2 fragments for VCS URLs:
egg
: For specifying the “project name” for use in pip’s dependency resolution logic. eg:egg=project_name
subdirectory
: For specifying the path to the Python package, when it is not in the root of the VCS directory. eg:pkg_dir
Example
If your repository layout is:
pkg_dir
├── setup.py # setup.py for package "pkg"
└── some_module.py
other_dir
└── some_file
some_other_file
Then, to install from this repository, the syntax would be:
$ python -m pip install -e "vcs+protocol://repo_url/#egg=pkg&subdirectory=pkg_dir"
$ python -m pip install -e "vcs+protocol://repo_url/#egg=pkg&subdirectory=pkg_dir"
C:> py -m pip install -e "vcs+protocol://repo_url/#egg=pkg&subdirectory=pkg_dir"