Git ignore .git folder

Question

I have a php project that uses composer for package management. One of the packages is another project belonging to the same repo. I have a need to commit my entire vendor folde

Answer 1

The entire vendor folder should be ignored, not just the .git sub-directories. Which packages are used are stored in composer.json and composer.lock which are what you check into version control.

See: https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/should-i-commit-the-dependencies-in-my-vendor-directory.md

If you want to create a reusable package as part of your project, you have two options:

A) Use Composer to handle another repo

Add to composer.json...

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "url": "https://github.com/l3pp4rd/DoctrineExtensions.git",
            "type": "git"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "gedmo/doctrine-extensions": "~2.3"
    }
}

B) Use a 2nd packages directory

You can create a packages directory and add it to your autoload paths. This will let you use a single Git repo for all the code (if you want to use two repos, you can use a Git submodule)

Add to composer.json...

"autoload": {
    "classmap": ["packages"]
}