Pip supports installation from github

Pip installation by cloning whole repository

pip install git+https://github.com/maxwu/cistat.git@dev

Will install cistat from dev branch of github code repository. However, if there are a number of files and the network is not smoothy, it costs longer time.

Pip installation from a cloned zip

pip install https://github.com/maxwu/cistat/archive/dev.zip

It will install the dev branch python library cistat with latest code.

Prerequisites

Github repository shall have setup.py, MANIFAST.IN, setup.cfg and requested supporting files as a Pypi distribution layout.

Reference

Stackoverflow, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20101834/pip-install-from-git-repo-branch