How to state in requirements.txt a direct github source

Normally your requirements.txt file would look something like this:

package-one==1.9.4
package-two==3.7.1
package-three==1.0.1
...

To specify a Github repo, you do not need the package-name== convention.

The examples below update package-two using a GitHub repo. The text between @ and # denotes the specifics of the package.

Specify commit hash (`41b95ec` in the context of updated `requirements.txt`):

package-one==1.9.4
git+https://github.com/path/to/package-two@41b95ec#egg=package-two
package-three==1.0.1

git+https://github.com/path/to/package-two@master#egg=package-two

git+https://github.com/path/to/[email protected]#egg=package-two

git+https://github.com/path/to/package-two@releases/tag/v3.7.1#egg=package-two

Note that #egg=package-two is not a comment here, it is to explicitly state the package name

This blog post has some more discussion on the topic.