["python","django","git","packaging","setuptools"]
How to write setup.py to include a Git repository as a dependency

I am trying to write setup.py for my package. My package needs to specify a dependency on another Git repository. This is what I have so far: from setuptools import setup, find_packages setup( name='abc', packages=find_packages(), url='https://github.abc.com/abc/myabc', description='This is a description for abc', long_description=open('README.md').read(), install_requires=[ "requests==2.7.0", "SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0", ], dependency_links = [ "git+git://github.abc.com/abc/SomePrivateLib.git#egg=SomePrivateLib", ], include_package_data=True, ) When I run: pip install -e https://github.abc.com/abc/myabc.git#egg=analyse I get Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0 (from analyse) (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for SomePrivateLib>=0.1.0 (from analyse) What am I doing wrong?
Note: this answer is now outdated. Have a look at this answer for up-to-date instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/54701434/212774 You can find the right way to do it here. dependency_links=['http://github.com/user/repo/tarball/master#egg=package-1.0'] The key is not to give a link to a Git repository, but a link to a tarball. GitHub creates a tarball of the master branch for you if you append /tarball/master as shown above.