In my pi requirements file, I require specific commits of various repos, ie:

git+http://github.com/frankban/django-endless-pagination.git@725bde91db#egg=django-endless-pagination

The problem I'm having with this is that it apparently requires pip to clone the repo anew for every install, ignoring the default download cache entirely.

Are there any ways to require this repo to be cached locally? Or, alternately, what is the best solution to package this up and keep the package locally available?