Use Composer without Packagist

Question

Say for instance you want to use a bundle from someone else, but want to do some modifications. So you do your modifications in some new branch, and configure comspoer.json

Answer 1

You should really be using a VCS repository instead of the package repository. Package is for when there is no composer.json and you want to specify it inline instead. In your case there is a composer.json, so you can use the VCS repo, like so:

"repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/umpirsky/SyliusAssortmentBundle"
    }
]

Composer will in this case use the GitHub API to fetch the branch names and check if the version dev-soft-deleteable-products-disabled exists. If it does, it will clone the repository and check out said branch.

Hopefully if you do this as a side effect your problem will be fixed as well.

For more information read the docs chapter on repositories.

Answer 2

Satis can be used as a micro version of Packagist - allowing you to centrally control your Composer dependancies for private repositories.

Composer Guide to Satis Usage