Requiring dev releases with Composer clones the repo, which is different than downloading a dev release archive

Created on 11 May 2021, over 3 years ago

Updated 27 August 2024, 4 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Dev version of any contrib module also installs .git subdirectory when you install it through composer
The issue breaks automatic deployment scripts for several cloud providers like Pantheon and Acquia
[RuntimeException]
The .git directory is missing from web/modules/composer/eck, see https://getcomposer.org/commit-deps for more information

Steps to reproduce

composer require 'drupal/eck:1.x-dev@dev' will also download project .git directory.

Proposed resolution

.git directory should be excluded whenever a project is installed from https://packages.drupal.org/8
The tagged versions don't have .git subdirectory.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

1.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇺🇸United States khaldoon_masud

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Comment 11 months ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom 2dareis2do
Looks like --prefer-dist and --prefer-source are my friends here https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/4867#issuecomment-178874694
Comment 4 months ago →
🇺🇸United States drumm NY, US
For ✨ Regression: RC releases have empty dist information Needs work , we now allow GitLab’s archive download API. So the next step would be updating the …~dev.json files to reference this API as a dist file. With some testing for side-effects.
Comment 4 months ago →
🇬🇧United Kingdom 2dareis2do
One way round this is to simply create a tagged release.

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