Clone a non composer repo with composer

Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

There are some usecases where you want to integrate arbitrary libraries into your system. One example I stumbled upon was some NPM library which stored some general taxonomy mappings in json files. In Drupal we wanted to synchronize these information.

Therefore we are using this small little bit in composer.json:

{
 "repositories": [
 {
 "type": "package",
 "package": {
 "name": "namespace/name",
 "version": "dev-master",
 "source": {
 "url": "https://github.com/example/example-repo.git",
 "type": "git",
 "reference": "master"
 }
 }
 }
 ]
}

Once this is done you can use:

Composer on Daniel Wehner's blog

Clone a non composer repo with composer