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title: Add a Git dependency
sidebarTitle: Add a Git dependency
mode: center
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Bun supports directly adding GitHub repositories as dependencies of your project.

```sh terminal icon="terminal"
bun add github:lodash/lodash
```

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This will add the following line to your `package.json`:

```json package.json icon="file-json"
{
  "dependencies": {
    "lodash": "github:lodash/lodash"
  }
}
```

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Bun supports a number of protocols for specifying Git dependencies.

```sh terminal icon="terminal"
bun add git+https://github.com/lodash/lodash.git
bun add git+ssh://github.com/lodash/lodash.git#4.17.21
bun add git@github.com:lodash/lodash.git
bun add github:colinhacks/zod
```

**Note:** GitHub dependencies download via HTTP tarball when possible for faster installation.

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See [Docs > Package manager](/docs/pm/cli/install) for complete documentation of Bun's package manager.
