Add support for hg-git (e.g. pip install -e hg+git+ssh://git@....)

[vbabiy]

I'm using mercurial to access git repositories, but I can not get pip working with git repository accessed by ssh.

pip install -e hg+git://github.com/... - works :)

pip install -e hg+git+ssh://... - almost works, but it tries to clone repository with #egg=sleekxmpp. See below:

#!shell
pip install -e hg+git+ssh://git@github.com:andyhelp/SleekXMPP.git#egg=sleekxmpp
Obtaining sleekxmpp from hg+git+ssh://git@github.com:andyhelp/SleekXMPP.git#egg=sleekxmpp
  Cloning hg git+ssh://git@github.com:andyhelp/SleekXMPP.git#egg=sleekxmpp to ./sleekxmpp
abort: ref egg=sleekxmpp not found on remote server

I guess that pip is confused by two + signs used to specify url?

---

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/ianb/pip/issue/184
• Originally Reported By:
• Originally Created At: 2010-11-06 16:57:35

[vbabiy]

• Changed type from enhancement to proposal.

---

Original Comment By: andyhelp

[pnasrat]

I'm not convinced that we want to support vcs bridging to vcs functionality, we'd endup having to support git+{cvs,darcs,hg,...}. for example. This seems as if it adds complexity, pip is inherently a package manager and should support the upstream package repository types, but this workflow seems quite corner case to me (ie use only one vcs for everything).

@jezdez, @carljm - any thoughts?

[carljm]

I agree, supporting every possible vcs-to-vcs bridge natively is out of scope for pip. Pip can access git repositories using git - that's sufficient.

[jezdez]

Agreed.