Question

I’m trying to use composer in Symfony 2.1 to pull down vendors from github libraries that are not composer aware and probably never will be.

For examples:
Old Deps file:

[jQuery]
git=git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git
version=1.8.1

[Mocha]
git=https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha.git

Composer (doesn’t work)

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "package",
        "package": {
            "name": "jquery",
            "version": "1.8.1",
            "dist": {
                "url": "git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git",
                "type": "git"
            }
        }
    }
],
"require": {
    "jquery": "1.8.1"
}

Answer 1

If you are downloading from git, you need to specify a “source” package, not a “dist” package. Use:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "package",
        "package": {
            "name": "jquery",
            "version": "1.8.1",
            "source": {
                "url": "git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git",
                "type": "git",
                "reference": "1.8.1"
            }
        }
    }
],
"require": {
    "jquery": "1.8.1"
}