How to clone repository with Composer without --prefer-source? (using Symfony 2)

composer-php, php, symfony

Solution

Adding `@dev` to the package version clones the repository too.

{
  "require": {
    'package': '*@dev'
  }
}

Also is possible setup `source` as preference in the `composer.json`

{
 "config": {
     "preferred-install": "source"
 }
}

Problem

Scenario: I am working with Symfony 2.2. In my list of required packages is also one of my github repositories, let's call it "TestLib". I know that I can define the github url as additional repository in Symfony's composer.json to download "TestLib" via Composer from Github. Problem: I cannot commit to "TestLib" repository as there is no local .git directory in the "TestLib" directory. I guess composer is fetching a zip from Github and not cloning it. So my question is: is there a way to specifiy in Symfony's composer.json that Composer should clone TestLib? Question 2: Maybe my workflow is wrong - so if you also have this scenario - how do you handle this?

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