Git Syntax Parsing Nuance

[kennethreitz]

This is something I've run into many times.

Long story short, this works:

pip install -e [email protected]:lsemel/django-tinymce.git@876cf22c067c349773005a54bd1528219d4daef2#egg=django_tinymce-dev

But this doesn't:

pip install [email protected]:lsemel/django-tinymce.git@876cf22c067c349773005a54bd1528219d4daef2#egg=django_tinymce-dev

Obviously, not best practice, but it would help make things easier for users.

[carljm]

Yeah, the only real purpose for the ssh version is to get a writable clone, which is useless without -e as the clone is only temporary. But unless the fix is ugly for some reason, there's no reason not to support this just to smooth the way for people. Pull request welcome.

[dstufft]

Closing as a duplicate of #2994 -- it has more discussion/information.