How can I specify a dependency as a git repository with branch name in pyproject.toml?

[rinarakaki]

You can do this with poetry with this schema:

[tool.poetry.dependencies]
some-package = { git = "https://github.com/some/repository.git", branch = "next" }

I tried this syntax below but it didn't work:

dependencies = [
  "some-package@git+https://github.com/some/repository.git@next",
  # or
  "some-package@git+https://github.com/some/repository.git#egg=next",
]

Can anyone please tell me how to do it correctly?

Sorry, but not sure if I'm posting on a right project (https://github.com/pypa/pip or other project is more appropriete?).

[abravalheri]

I tried this syntax below but it didn't work:

dependencies = [
  "some-package@git+https://github.com/some/repository.git@next",
  # or
  "some-package@git+https://github.com/some/repository.git#egg=next",
]

Can anyone please tell me how to do it correctly?

Last time I tried that it worked, maybe if you remove the .git? and add an space around the first @? Something like:

dependencies = [
  "some-package @ git+https://github.com/some/repository@next"
]

But yeah, setuptools itself does not perform the installation so I don't think we can help with that.

The only thing we can advise is that the syntax of the dependency specifier should follow this spec: https://peps.python.org/pep-0440/#direct-references.

[rinarakaki]

Now I've figured out that it works with pip install without the modification of the format:

pip install -e .

but didn't work with with/without the changes you suggested to me, because I was using setup.py install:

python setup.py install

I didn't know that those two install commands treats the same dependency string in different ways.

Thank you anyway for the reply and the referrence!

[abravalheri]

Ah ok. Yes please use pip. The CLI capabilities of setup.py have been deprecated for a while and the file should only be used as a configuration file, not a CLI tool.