Use PHP composer to clone git repo

Question

I\'m trying to use composer to automatically clone a git repository from github that isn\'t in packagist but it\'s not working and I can\'t figure out what am I doing wrong.

Answer 1

I was encountering the following error: The requested package my-foo/bar could not be found in any version, there may be a typo in the package name.

If you're forking another repo to make your own changes you will end up with a new repository.

E.g:

https://github.com/foo/bar.git
=>
https://github.com/my-foo/bar.git

The new url will need to go into your repositories section of your composer.json.

Remember if you want refer to your fork as my-foo/bar in your require section, you will have to rename the package in the composer.json file inside of your new repo.

{
    "name":         "foo/bar",

=>

{
    "name":         "my-foo/bar",

If you've just forked the easiest way to do this is edit it right inside github.

Answer 2

In my case, I use Symfony2.3.x and the minimum-stability parameter is by default "stable" (which is good). I wanted to import a repo not in packagist but had the same issue "Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.". It appeared that the composer.json in the repo I tried to import use a minimum-stability "dev".

So to resolve this issue, don't forget to verify the minimum-stability. I solved it by requiring a dev-master version instead of master as stated in this post.