How to write setup.py to include a git repo as a dependency

Question

I am trying to write setup.py for my package. My package needs to specify a dependency on another git repo.

This is what I have so far:

Answer 1

The following answer is deprecated for Pip 19+

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Unfortunately the other answer does not work with private repositories, which is one of the most common use cases for this. I eventually did get it working with a setup.py file that looks like this:

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name = 'MyProject',
    version = '0.1.0',
    url = '',
    description = '',
    packages = find_packages(),
    install_requires = [
        # Github Private Repository - needs entry in `dependency_links`
        'ExampleRepo'
    ],

    dependency_links=[
        # Make sure to include the `#egg` portion so the `install_requires` recognizes the package
        'git+ssh://git@github.com/example_organization/ExampleRepo.git#egg=ExampleRepo-0.1'
    ]
)

Newer versions of pip make this even easier by removing the need to use "dependency_links"-

from setuptools import setup, find_packages

setup(
    name = 'MyProject',
    version = '0.1.0',
    url = '',
    description = '',
    packages = find_packages(),
    install_requires = [
        # Github Private Repository
        'ExampleRepo @ git+ssh://git@github.com/example_organization/ExampleRepo.git#egg=ExampleRepo-0.1'
    ]
)