How to clone repository with Composer without --prefer-source? (using Symfony 2)

Question

Scenario: I am working with Symfony 2.2. In my list of required packages is also one of my github repositories, let\'s call it \"TestLib\".

I know that I can define the

Answer 1

Adding @dev to the package version clones the repository too.

{
  "require": {
    'package': '*@dev'
  }
}

Also is possible setup source as preference in the composer.json

{
 "config": {
     "preferred-install": "source"
 }
}