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Asked: 2026-06-03T07:31:17+00:00

I’m trying to install my application via pip to a virtualenv for testing. Works

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I’m trying to install my application via pip to a virtualenv for testing.

Works fine for installing the default or tip like so:

pip install -e hg+https://username@bitbucket.org/username/app_name#egg=app_name

But is there any way to point to a branch, rather than just getting the tip. Not sure if this would be a mercurial thing, bitbucket, or pip.

Bitbucket allows for downloading of a tagged version of the code, but I can only get it to work while logged into the browser. I tried installing from a tag tar.gz like so:

pip install https://username@bitbucket.org/username/app_name/get/bbc4286a75db.tar.gz

but even after entering my password it returns a 401 Unauthorized (Its a Private Repo)

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  1. Editorial Team

    In official pip documentation in section VCS Support:

    Mercurial

    The supported schemes are: hg+http, hg+https, hg+static-http and
    hg+ssh:

    -e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/#egg=MyProject
-e hg+https://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/#egg=MyProject
-e hg+ssh://hg@myproject.org/MyProject/#egg=MyProject

    You can also specify a revision number, a revision hash, a tag name or
    a local branch name:

    -e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/@da39a3ee5e6b#egg=MyProject
-e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/@2019#egg=MyProject
-e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/@v1.0#egg=MyProject
-e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/@special_feature#egg=MyProject

    The syntax is the same when specifying repo at the command line

    pip install -e hg+http://hg.myproject.org/MyProject/@special_feature#egg=MyProject

    and it works when not using -e option starting from version 0.8.2.

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