Is there a package manager for emacs that can use git repositories directly?

Question

Is there a way to manage packages in emacs where I can point to a git repository directly? (like vim-plug for eg).

Maybe github.com/emacscollective/borg or github.com/raxod502/straight.el can help. — xuchunyang
– xuchunyang, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 4:08
From personal experience I can second the hint by user:xuchunyang to the straight package manager. — Marco Wahl
– Marco Wahl, Commented Jul 14, 2019 at 10:25
I like use-package and I just found out that with quelpa-integration I also can install packages from GitHub (use-package quelpa-use-package :ensure t) (use-package bitwarden :ensure nil :quelpa (bitwarden :fetcher github :repo "seanfarley/emacs-bitwarden")) — Günter Zöchbauer
– Günter Zöchbauer, Commented Feb 13, 2020 at 17:17

Hubisan · Accepted Answer · 2023-12-27 20:06:18Z

There are several:

Starting with Emacs 29 there is the built-in package-vc-install (Fetching Package Sources (GNU Emacs Manual))
Quelpa
Quelpa allows for fetching packages from arbitrary sources and building them into a format that can be installed by package.el
Straight
Install Emacs packages listed on MELPA, GNU ELPA, or Emacsmirror, or provide your own recipes. Packages are cloned as Git (or other) repositories.
Borg
Assimilate Emacs packages as Git submodules.
El-get
El-Get allows you to install and manage elisp code for Emacs. It supports lots of different types of sources and is able to install them, update them and remove them, but more importantly it will init them for you.

There is a detailed comparison on the straight.el github page.

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