Installing a private GitHub repo into a Tesseract

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Sometimes it might be necessary to install a private repo into a Tesseract; this can be done in two steps

  1. Add the following line to tesseract_requirements.txt
    git+ssh://git@github.com/username/repo.git@branch
  2. Use tesseract build --forward-ssh-agent to grant the builder access to your SSH keys

A key thing to note is the difference between the format of the url in step 1 and the one available on GitHub under the green code button - git@github.com:pasteurlabs/tesseract-core

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In order to use ssh in the format above, you would need to replace the : after github.com with a /, i.e. git+ssh://git@github.com/pasteurlabs/tesseract-core.

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