如何从下载的 git 存储库安装

Question

I have been given a link to a github repository and informed to install using pip install rep-name unfortunately I was advised not to share the exact URL for now, so I will use rep-name . This question may be related to Install a downloaded package from GitHub but I am not using npm.

In Jupyter notebook I used the following:

pip install git+https://github.com/xyz/rep-name.git

But got errors like: Host key verification failed. fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Now I have downloaded the repository as zip folder and placed it in C:\MyFolder. How can I run pip install on that zipped folder?

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is most likely by first downloading using git and then installing with pip eg

Optionally, you can clone the repro again to assure non of your previous changes interfere with the installation.

git clone https://github.com/xyz/rep-name.git repro_name

If all is good you can just cd into your repro and install:

cd repro_name
pip install -e .

Note that any changes that will be made to the repro will be automatically updated in the your environment due to the editable (-e) tag.