pip install from git repo branch
Using pip with git+ to clone a repository can be extremely slow (test with https://github.com/django/django@stable/1.6.x for example, it will take a few minutes). The fastest thing I've found, which works with GitHub and BitBucket, is:
pip install https://github.com/user/repository/archive/branch.zip
which becomes for Django master:
pip install https://github.com/django/django/archive/master.zip
for Django stable/1.7.x:
pip install https://github.com/django/django/archive/stable/1.7.x.zip
With BitBucket it's about the same predictable pattern:
pip install https://bitbucket.org/izi/django-admin-tools/get/default.zip
Here, the master branch is generally named default.
This will make your requirements.txt
installing much faster.
Some other answers mention variations required when placing the package to be installed into your requirements.txt
. Note that with this archive syntax, the leading -e
and trailing #egg=blah-blah
are not required, and you can just simply paste the URL, so your requirements.txt looks like:
https://github.com/user/repository/archive/branch.zip
Prepend the url prefix git+
(See VCS Support):
pip install git+https://github.com/tangentlabs/django-oscar-paypal.git@issue/34/oscar-0.6
And specify the branch name without the leading /
.