How do I get Composer to download the latest commit in the master branch from GitHub for a package?
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I am trying to get Composer do download the latest commit for the Behat/MinkSelenium2Driver package. That particular repo only has a master branch. I have tried every method I can think of, including deleting the files and letting it pull them back in, to get it to work but it doesn't.
How would I get it to pull in latest committed files or at least those from the commit I list below?
Specifically I want to get this commit: https://github.com/Behat/MinkSelenium2Driver/commit/2e73d8134ec8526b6e742f05c146fec2d5e1b8d6
Thanks, Patrick
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
There is only one way to grab the head of the repository:
"require": { "behat/mink-selenium2-driver" : "dev-master" }
"minimum-stability": "dev"
Oh well, at least two ways:
"require": { "behat/mink-selenium2-driver" : "dev-master as 1.1.x-dev" }
"minimum-stability": "dev"
Probably at least three ways:
"require": { "behat/mink-selenium2-driver" : "dev-master#2e73d8134ec8526b6e742f05c146fec2d5e1b8d6" }
"minimum-stability": "dev"
Because that repository actually aliased the master branch as 1.1.x-dev, this would also work without the minimum-stability affecting all other packages:
"require": { "behat/mink-selenium2-driver" : "1.1.*@dev" }
Solution 2 - Php
Simply specify the master branch:
composer require --dev behat/mink-selenium2-driver:dev-master
PS: the --dev is just to specify it's a test/development requirement, that's probably what you want.
Solution 3 - Php
In our case, none of the previous answers were working. It turned out to be something simple:
Composer only uses the repositories attribute of the ROOT composer.json
https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#repositories
In our case, we were trying to get the latest commit from dev-master of one of our transitive dependencies. There was some problem with the hooks between github and packagist preventing it from working like normal and it took us a couple hours to realize that we were editing the wrong composer.json (the one from our library that carries the dependency) instead of the top-level composer.json that we were installing.
Solution 4 - Php
For my case, all the 03 suggested solutions above from @Sven didn't work. This was my solution in case someone still struggling on a similar context.
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remove existing usage if you have it
composer remove the_vendor/the_package_name
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If you have access to the package repo, create a 1st tag for it (eg: 0.1.0)
git tag --annotate 0.1.0 --message "Initial version 0.1.0"
git push origin 0.1.0
Note:
Each time you update your package repo, pls attribute a new tag (eg: 0.1.1) & make composer update the_vendor/the_package_name
on main app to update the composer.lock
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If you don't have access to the package repo, pick existing tag version (not
dev-master
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require it from main app
composer require the_vendor/the_package_name:^0.1
from master