Unsure of behaviour when package is installed directly from source control

[steven-murray]

In the README it has the line:

Package installed directly from hosted source control via ``pip install git+git:...``: unsure?

This behavior should be verified. @bhazelton do you have any idea how it should work in this case?

As a bonus, any ideas for other cases that need to be covered?

[bhazelton]

I agree it should be verified. I'm not sure I agree that the behavior you list with pip install -e . is what happens (and I'm pretty sure it's not what we want to happen). I think when you install that way you want to get the git hash of the currently running code NOT the hash that existed when you ran pip install -e .. I believe that is what happens because the code first tries to get the hash from git before it reads the GIT_INFO file.

[steven-murray]

This has been fixed, and now works as intended, though I cannot prove it with tests...