Question

This is weird, seems like something small that I’m missing. A few days ago, when I composer install I get Vendor directories with their own .git, this allows me to make changes and update my own packaged repositories.

Today, after running composer install, the .git directories inside each package folder is missing! (I think this might have something to do with installing from cache?)

Could someone please try re-create this?

$ git clone https://github.com/nathankot/rbhpi
$ cd rbhpi
$ ./composer.phar install
$ cd vendor/rbhpi/core
$ ls -a

From the above commands, the .git directory is missing for me.

I couldn’t find this spec in the docs, but I did find it in this faq item:

Remove the .git directory of every dependency after the installation

Any solutions to my problem?

Answer 1

Composer prefers the dist package of your dependencies, meaning dowloading a .tgz from github and unpacking it. If you want the source, install your vendors with

composer install --prefer-source

This will do a git checkout like you want.