# Add a Git dependency (/docs/guides/install/add-git)

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Related: [Add a dependency](/docs/guides/install/add.md), [Add a development dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-dev.md), [Add an optional dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-optional.md), [Add a peer dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-peer.md), [Add a tarball dependency](/docs/guides/install/add-tarball.md), [Install a package under a different name](/docs/guides/install/npm-alias.md)

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 adds 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
```

When possible, Bun downloads GitHub dependencies as HTTP tarballs, which is faster.

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See [`bun install`](/pm/cli/install).