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Merge pull request #8148 from NoahGorny/improve-dev-docs 

docs: getting-started: Improve running pip from source tree section
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Running pip From Source Tree
============================
To run the pip executable from your source tree during development, run pip
from the ``src`` directory:
To run the pip executable from your source tree during development, install pip
locally using editable installation (inside a virtualenv).
You can then invoke your local source tree pip normally.
.. code-block:: console
$ python src/pip --version
$ virtualenv venv # You can also use "python -m venv venv" from python3.3+
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ python -m pip install -e .
$ python -m pip --version
Running Tests

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Improve "Running pip from source tree" section in getting-started
to use editable installation instead of running pip directly from source.