Git installs over ssh don't seem to work

[Kroppeb]

Summary

I was checking out uv, so I looked at the docs on how to install git dependencies (see here). But it seems to not work for ssh installs?

The docs tell me to add git+ in front of the git clone compatible url, which seems to work if I use the https url, but not for ssh.

examples:

• uv add git+https://github.com/astral-sh/uv.git => does work
• uv add [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git => does not work
• uv add git+ssh://[email protected]/astral-sh/uv.git => does not work

Platform

Windows 11 x86_64

Version

uv 0.6.8 (c1ef482 2025-03-18)

Python version

Python 3.12.1

[charliermarsh]

This works for me without issue:

❯ uv add git+ssh://[email protected]/astral-sh/uv.git
Using CPython 3.13.0
Creating virtual environment at: .venv
Resolved 2 packages in 49ms
    Updated ssh://[email protected]/astral-sh/uv.git (584dd36e46732cd955ec3e984d97a7ba6569c019)
   Building uv @ git+ssh://[email protected]/astral-sh/uv.git@584dd36e46732cd955ec3e984d97a7ba6569c019
⠧ Preparing packages... (0/1)

I suspect there may be an issue in your SSH configuration or similar?

[Kroppeb]

ugh, my bad. I had converted the [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git url to and ssh url without changing the : into a /. Realized my mistake while writing the issue and changed the : into a / that time, but then apparently forgot to add the ssh:// 🤦

And I guess [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git doesn't work, because [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git is not a url? It is confusing because it is something you can use in a git clone and it's what github gives you if you use the clone button (for ssh). I'm also coming from pipenv which does support this format.

[charliermarsh]

No worries! Pipenv supports [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git? Like it assumes ssh?

[Kroppeb]

Yes it converts them into ssh urls*.

I'm confused about your second question. [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git is an alternative syntax for ssh.

pipenv's handling of ssh urls is a bit broken and will result in corrupt lock files if no branch, tag or commit is specified.

[charliermarsh]

Understood! The context for my clarification is: pip install [email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git doesn't work (same for uv pip install) -- they require pip install git+ssh://[email protected]:astral-sh/uv.git (so does uv pip install).