Install Pre-release Version

If you want to test the latest stable version of DVC, ahead of official releases, you can install it from our code repository GitHub.

We strongly recommend creating a virtual environment or using pipx (on Python 3.6+) to encapsulate your local environment.

# Should be installed before DVC. See details below.
$ pip install gitpython

# Basic version.
$ pip install git+https://github.com/iterative/dvc

# With cloud storage support, add `egg=dvc[option]`,
# e.g. `s3` for AWS S3, `all` - to support all availabe remote storages.
# See full list in the `extras_require` section here:
# https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/master/setup.py
$ pip install "git+https://github.com/iterative/dvc#egg=dvc[s3]"

gitpython allows the installation process to generate a DVC version using the current Git commit hash. This lets us to distinguish official DVC releases (e.g. 0.64.3) from a development version (e.g. 0.64.3-9c7381). For more information on our versioning convention, refer to Components of DVC version.

To install a development version for contributing to the project, please see Development environment.