What does url of the kind git+https mean? I was installing an application and the command suggested was

"pip install -e git+"

Can someone please explain what it means.

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A URL like git://github.com will mean just the plain Git protocol. To clarify that it should use Git over HTTPS instead, the protocol is written git+https. Now, git itself does not need this, you can do just git clone .

For other tools like pip, which can handle many protocols, will indicate that it should do just a GET request for that URL, and git:// would indicate that it should attempt to clone the repo with the plain Git protocol. git+https is used to indicate that it should clone the repo over HTTPS (just as git+ssh is used to indicate it should do so using SSH).

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