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How to import different branch of a package(based on python) in GitHub to local computer?

I have a question about import different branch of a repo on Google Colab.

Autograd(https://github.com/HIPS/autograd) have a cupy-adaptable version which lies in another branch(https://github.com/HIPS/autograd/tree/cupy).I want to import autograd(cupy-friendly version into google colab and used following command:

!pip install git+git://github.com/ericmjl/autograd/tree/cupy

but it have following errors:

Collecting git+git://github.com/ericmjl/autograd/tree/cupy
Cloning git://github.com/ericmjl/autograd/tree/cupy to /tmp/pip-yoasr9_z-build fatal:

remote error: ericmjl/autograd/tree/cupy is not a valid repository name
Email support@github.com for help

Command "git clone -q git://github.com/ericmjl/autograd/tree/cupy /tmp/pip-yoasr9_z-build" failed with error code 128 in None

Is there anybody who can help me with that? Thanks so much!!

Solution

  • This should work: pip install git+https://github.com/ericmjl/autograd.git@cupy

    see VCS support.