pip install wheel version from private github repo

Question

I've packaged my private repo into a wheel. There are different versions of the wheel. Is it possible to install a specific wheel version of the repo using pip from the command line and via the requirements.txt file? This feature isn't mentioned in the pip documentation from what I can tell.

I can install a pip package from a private repository with no problem, using a Github token.

pip install git+https://[email protected]/[username]/[reponame].git

I can also install a private pip package with a specific commit:

pip install git+https://[email protected]/[username]/[reponame].git@[commit_sha]

Answer 1

According to current docs, installing wheels (with or without pinned version) from VCS is currently not supported by pip, and maybe it never will.

I suspect the reason is that a wheel is basically a "compiled artifact", so you wouldn't usually find those committed into a git repository, e.g. all the examples from the VCS page show examples that would install that dependency from source and build it locally.