Composer - adding git repository without composer.json

Question

I try to add repository from github (designmodo/Flat-UI), play with config and get errors No valid composer.json was found in any branch or..., Your requireme

Answer 1

It only worked for me removing the label, like this:

{
        "repositories":[
        {              
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
              "name": "designmodo/Flat-UI",
              "version": "1.3.0",
              "source": {
                "url": "https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI",
                "type": "git",
                "reference": "master"
              }
            }
        }
        ],
        "require": {
            "twbs/bootstrap-sass": "~3.2",
            "designmodo/Flat-UI": "*"
        }, 
}

Answer 2

Problem solved. Play around and changed reference to master and version to any * in "designmodo/Flat-UI": "*" section. After that composer download package via git and update composer.lock without problems. Should work for any github repos.

Working config:

{
    "repositories": {
      "flat-ui": {
        "type": "package",
        "package": {
          "name": "designmodo/Flat-UI",
          "version": "1.3.0",
          "source": {
            "url": "https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI",
            "type": "git",
            "reference": "master"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "require": {
        "twbs/bootstrap-sass": "~3.2",
        "designmodo/Flat-UI": "*"
    },
}

https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md