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Working with TestPyPI

Before publishing to PyPI, the code and publishing scripts can be tested via TestPyPI.

Prepare the package for TestPyPI

• uv build to create the package.

Publish to TestPyPI via uv

uv publish --index testpypi --username __token__ --password AUTHENTICATION-TOKEN

Here __token__ should be entered as is, and AUTHENTICATION-TOKEN should be replaced with the (very long) token generated from the TestPyPI account.

Download gitinspectorgui from TestPyPI

The problem with downloading gitinspectorgui from TestPyPI is that pip will also try to download the required dependencies from TestPyPI, whereas the dependencies should be downloaded from PyPI. Therefore, instead of the command pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ gitinspectorgui shown at TestPyPI, use the following command:

pip install --pre --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ \
    --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ gitinspectorgui

The --pre flag is required because the version on TestPyPI is a pre-release.

When using release candidates, the version number should be specified, e.g.:

pip install --pre --index-url https://test.pypi.org/simple/ \
    --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ gitinspectorgui==0.4.0rc7