I am sure I once read it somewhere but I cannot find it anymore anywhere, DAMN!
So basically what I am trying to do is to specify some exclusion criteria in my composer.json file for a certain library of mine so that, when used as a dependency of a project, the importing project does not get test files, .git folders, READ.md files and all that stuff (totally useless when you only want a library as a dependency and not for development).
So basically I am trying to lighten up my libs when they are downloaded as dependencies. Anyone on that?
Ta
You can add a .gitattributes file to your project root, looking something like this:
/Tests export-ignore
READ.md export-ignore
When someone installs your dependency this files will be excluded from the distribution zip.
There are some prerequisites for your lib to be downloaded as a zip by composer
You need to have a stable tagged version. dev-master will always be cloned by composer.
If the user installs with composer install --prefer-source composer will also clone from your git repo.
In all other cases composer will download the zip and all the files in .gitattributes will be excluded from it.
Hope this helps.
If you're on a unix-like system, you can do this in one cmd, simply cd to vendor dir and :
find . -type d -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*\/(tests?|docs?|\.git)" -exec rm -rf {} \;
adapt the regex to your needs
find cmd:
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?find
regards
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unfortunately I can't use composer, due to low memory on the webspace. That's why I'm trying to push vendor/* to the git repository, to be able to pull the full project, including the dependencies.
In my .gitignore I'm forcing git to unignore the vendor files by !/vendor/*.
It works for most files, but not for /vendor/friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle.
Content of /vendor/friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle/.gitignore:
/phpunit.xml
/composer.lock
/composer.phar
/vendor/
/node_modules/
My repository is hosted at BitBucket. I don't know yet the meaning of the different folder-icon and the hashs next to it. If anyone knows, please comment.
Does anyone know how to force git to handle all the vendor files?
Thanks in advance!
Solutions
As the jsrouting-bundle is a git submodule, I chose this solution:
git submodule add git://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSJsRoutingBundle.git vendor/friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle
Another way would be to use the deps file (not tested), source:
https://github.com/XKEYGmbH/ifresco-client/tree/master/vendor/friendsofsymfony/jsrouting-bundle/FOS/JsRoutingBundle/Resources/doc
The jsrouting-bundle folder is a Git submodule. A Git submodule is actually a reference to another Git repository. This is why you cannot add changes from it to your original Git repository.
I had to do this in the past, here is what I did:
php composer.phar selfupdate
php composer.phar update
In the vendor directory run sudo find . -type d -name .git | xargs rm -rf
Commit all modifications: git add -A .
With this, your vendor will be commit like the src directory, so no need to run composer install when deploying in your production environment. When wanting to update just repeat the process. But of course it isn't a good practice and you should do this only if you can't run composer on your production server.
I realize that this is what composer is used for, but I don't particularly like it. It makes sense, but it annoys me that laravel5's github doesn't work out of the box because it's vendor directory is somewhat large and isn't necessarily laravel5, although laravel does require it.
It also puzzles me why composer doesn't get it itself.
I would expect to be able to
git clone the_laravel5_github_url
composer install
and be able to run as it seemed like you were able to do at one time, but for some reason now, the vendor directory isn't there. I feel like this makes laravel harder to set up as it isn't so obvious.
Is there a place where someone can get an recent version of this? I find it disappointing that there is no mention of it on their readme and that you were able to do it before and still can't despite using composer install.
Install Composer on your OS using this command
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php.
Move the composer.phar file to /usr/local/bin/ with this command
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer. This will enable you to access composer globally.
git clone your project.
Make a vendors folder in the root of your project.
cd to root of your project and run composer update. This command will look for vendors folder in the root and will install all the packages required by your project in it.
Happy Coding
Thank you :)
Use composer install in the same folder of your app. Try composer update. And install composer globally in your OS.
Ive downloaded a helper library of an API written in PHP from GITHUB, but when I download the .zip file it doesnt contain vendor folder, but everywhere in the code it is seeking some files from vendor folder-which is error in running.
Can you help me how to get these? new to the system.
If you're working with PHP and you can't find a vendor/ directory that you expect to see, that PHP codebase probably uses Composer:
Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you.
One surefire way to know that a project uses Composer (aside from reading its documentation) is to see if there are composer.json and composer.lock files (probably) in the root of the repository. These files define the project's dependencies.
To generate the vendor/ directory,
install Composer,
there are a few ways to do this, and it is OS-dependent, but something like curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php should work if you're on Linux or OSX,
open a terminal and cd into the project directory,
run composer install,
depending on how you installed Composer, you may have to run php composer.phar install instead,
wait for Composer to do its thing.
Composer will download your dependencies, putting the code into vendor/, and generate an autoloader class that hooks everything together. Depending on what the dependencies are it might also do other things, like linking all CLI binaries to vendor/bin/.
In my PHP project I use composer.
For some reasons (stupid, but it's not depending on me) I must store all project files in a git repository, including "vendor/" files fetched by composer. I've removed "vendor/" from the .gitignore file, but some modules (like https://github.com/RWOverdijk/AssetManager) are treated as submodules -
and they are not being added to the repository (git add ignores them).
What do I need to do, to force addition?
You can use the following commands:
# remove `.git` folders recursively
find vendor -type d -name '.git' -exec rm -rf {} \;
# Add the vendor folder
git add vendor
Probably it would be better to persuade your boss that composer isn't meant to work like that.
This is weird, seems like something small that I'm missing. A few days ago, when I composer install I get Vendor directories with their own .git, this allows me to make changes and update my own packaged repositories.
Today, after running composer install, the .git directories inside each package folder is missing! (I think this might have something to do with installing from cache?)
Could someone please try re-create this?
$ git clone https://github.com/nathankot/rbhpi
$ cd rbhpi
$ ./composer.phar install
$ cd vendor/rbhpi/core
$ ls -a
From the above commands, the .git directory is missing for me.
I couldn't find this spec in the docs, but I did find it in this faq item:
Remove the .git directory of every dependency after the installation
Any solutions to my problem?
Composer prefers the dist package of your dependencies, meaning dowloading a .tgz from github and unpacking it. If you want the source, install your vendors with
composer install --prefer-source
This will do a git checkout like you want.