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by saghm 455 days ago
As a bonus that people might not be aware of, in the cases where you do want to use the repo directly (either because there isn't a published package or maybe you want the latest commit that hasn't been released), `cargo install` also has a `--git` flag that lets you specify a URL to a repo. I've used this a number of times in the past, especially as an easy way for me to quickly install personal stuff that I throw together and push to a repo without needing to put together any sort of release process or manually copy around binaries to personal machines and keep track of the exact commits I've used to build them.