Training DistilGPT2, running into import error

Hello!
I am trying to train distilgpt2 with my own data on colab. The problem is, even after installing the packages from requirements.txt, it is running into an import error. I am reproducing the entire error below.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “train.py”, line 28, in
from distiller import Distiller
File “/content/transformers/examples/distillation/distiller.py”, line 31, in
from grouped_batch_sampler import GroupedBatchSampler, create_lengths_groups
File “/content/transformers/examples/distillation/grouped_batch_sampler.py”, line 24, in
from utils import logger
File “/content/transformers/examples/distillation/utils.py”, line 23, in
import git
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/git/init.py”, line 38, in
from git.exc import * # @NoMove @IgnorePep8
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/git/exc.py”, line 9, in
from git.compat import UnicodeMixin, safe_decode, string_types
File “/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/git/compat.py”, line 16, in
from gitdb.utils.compat import (
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘gitdb.utils.compat’

Any help is appreciated. Is this because of an improper version of python?

NB : I have restarted the runtime after installing packages from requirements.txt , but still the error persists.

Thank you for your time!

Are you sure you ran

pip install -r requirements.txt

in the distillation subfolder of the repo? It looks like you are missing some required packages.

Yes. I have installed all packages using the given command and restarted the runtime to use them all.
Is this a problem pertaining to google-colab?
I am reproducing the output of the pip install requirements command.

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Requirement already satisfied: packaging in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (from transformers->-r requirements.txt (line 1)) (20.4)
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ERROR: tensorflow 2.2.0 has requirement scipy==1.4.1; python_version >= "3", but you'll have scipy 1.3.1 which is incompatible.
ERROR: albumentations 0.1.12 has requirement imgaug<0.2.7,>=0.2.5, but you'll have imgaug 0.2.9 which is incompatible.
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Thanks for your help!

is there any command line interface available to do so.

kindly pls suggest.
and how to upload python files and folders… as in import feature.

& even suggest how to write following command in requirements if cmd line interface is not available

git clone -b opencv-2.4 --single-branch https://github.com/Itseez/opencv.git