# Getting basic information of a elixir project from GitHub

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** git\
**Created:** [June 6, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/getting-basic-information-of-a-elixir-project-from-github/48231 "2022-06-06T16:04:58Z")\
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> [@shahryarjb](#):
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> Thank you, but do you have any suggestion? Because I need to get some basic information about the dep they want to install and after that I pass this operation to `Mix deps.get`

No. There’s no safe way to do that for all possible mix.exs files. Mix itself doesn’t use versions for git dependencies at all, it uses branches or git sha’s.

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