How to work on a fork in GitHub - php

Question

I would like to update a repo in GitHub to make it compatible with ZF3, I have forked the repository to my account and made some updates.
This is my fork: https://github.com/chateaux/zf-oauth2-doctrine
Now to include this in my code base I am using Composer:
{
"name": "My Project",
"description": "",
"license": "PRIVATE - ",
"keywords": [
""
],
"homepage": "",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/chateaux/zf-oauth2-doctrine"
}
],
"require": {
"php": ">=5.4",
"zendframework/zendframework": "^2.4",
"doctrine/doctrine-orm-module": "~0.8",
"doctrine/orm": "^2.4",
"gedmo/doctrine-extensions": "^2.4",
"zf-commons/zfc-rbac":"^2.5",
"rwoverdijk/assetmanager": "^1.4",
"zfcampus/zf-apigility": "^1.0",
"zfr/zfr-cors": "^1.2",
"hounddog/doctrine-data-fixture-module": "^0.0.4",
"zfcampus/zf-oauth2-client": "dev-master",
"api-skeletons/zf-oauth2-doctrine": "dev-master",
"api-skeletons/zf-oauth2-doctrine-console": "^1.1",
"chateaux/toolbox" : "dev-master"
},
"require-dev": {
"zfcampus/zf-apigility-admin": "~1.0",
"zfcampus/zf-development-mode": "~2.0",
"zendframework/zend-developer-tools": "dev-master"
}
}
However when I run a composer update, it appears to be pulling from a cache so I am not getting my updated code base:
$ php composer.phar update
You are running composer with xdebug enabled. This has a major impact on runtime performance. See https://getcomposer.org/xdebug
Warning: This development build of composer is over 60 days old. It is recommended to update it by running "composer.phar self-update" to get the latest version.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
- Installing zfcampus/zf-oauth2-doctrine (1.0.3)
Loading from cache
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You should add your custom fork of the repository to the repositories array in your composer.json file and add a type field git and then point to the branch you want to use with dev-[branchname] (for example patch-4 becomes dev-patch4):
{
"name": "My ZF2 application",
"repositories": [
{
"type": "git",
"url": "https://github.com/chateaux/zf-oauth2-doctrine.git"
},
],
"require": {
...
"zfcampus/zf-oauth2-doctrine": "dev-patch-4",
...
}
}
Make sure that patch-4 is an existing branch in your custom repository.
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