Composer package by branch

Question

I have a forked symfony repository in GitHub and I pushed some code to the 2.4 branch. How can I make Composer use this specific branch?

composer.json:

"require" : {
    ...
    "symfony/symfony" : "dev-2.4"
},
"repositories" : {
    "type" : "vcs",
    "url" : "https://github.com/tamirvs/symfony"
}

But I get The requested package symfony/symfony dev-2.4 could not be found. I've also tried 2.4-dev and 2.4 but I get the same error..

All the info I found on the web got me to what I've already tried.. any ideas?

Please note, that when setting the version to 2.4.* the repository is pulled but without my commits..

Answer 1

I think you'll need to use 2.4.x-dev, as outlined in the documentation.

For example a branch 2.0 will get a version 2.0.x-dev (the .x is added for technical reasons, to make sure it is recognized as a branch, a 2.0.x branch would also be valid and be turned into 2.0.x-dev as well.

Answer 2

Try 2.5-dev.

I believe that the branch has got that version number.

EDIT:

Take a look at https://github.com/tamirvs/symfony/blob/master/composer.json

"extra": {
  "branch-alias": {
    "dev-master": "2.5-dev"
  }
}