Extracting files from .phar archive

Question

There is something I entirely missed as for phar files. I am installing a project that requires phpunit, pdepend and other dependencies. I fetched them as .phar files. But, I am

Answer 1

Not sure if it's new, but under PHP 5.4.16 this works:

phar extract -f %some phar file%

The phar is extracted relative to your current working directory.