Cannot install from local git repo

[yggdr]

Trying a few variations of pipx install <SPEC> always yields Unable to parse package spec:
I tried
/path/to/repo#<HASH>, git:///path/to/repo#<HASH>, git+file:///path/to/repo#<HASH>, git+files:///path/to/repo#<HASH>, and the same with .git added to end of the path.
Are local git operations unsupported?

[huxuan]

Instead of installing from local git repo, I would suggest to install from local directory directly. Just pipx install /path/to/repo should work. You can even use pipx install -e /path/to/repo and in this way, pipx will automatically change the installed application according to the commit of the local directory you checked out. I often use this to debug pipx. :-)

Will this resolve your problem?

[yggdr]

No, I specifically wanted to install from a certain commit in a repository, not from a directory. The repo happens to live in a local directory.

[huxuan]

AFAIK, there is no standarized URI format with commit hash for local git repos, so I do not think pipx should (and easy for pipx to) "create" it. Just let me know if I am wrong.

For your use cases, I would suggest to git checkout the certain commit you want locally and pipx install or even pipx install -e as I have mentioned.

I will close this issue and feel free to reopen it if necessary.

[yggdr]

It's part of PyPA: https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/topics/vcs-support/

[huxuan]

Sorry, I will further look into it. Thanks for the reference. Reopen the issue.

[yggdr]

Thank you very much :)

[dukecat0]

It looks like we need to update the logic here:

pipx/src/pipx/package_specifier.py

Line 51 in 36d632d

def _parse_specifier(package_spec: str) -> ParsedPackage:

We should support path to local git repo as well.