How to install an extension on a private Github using Composer?

Question

I'd like to know how to install extensions on my Magento 2.1 using Github / Bitbucket / Gitlab with public and private repositories.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Public Github repository

Your custom branch name must be prefixed with "dev-".

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/igorw/monolog"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "monolog/monolog": "dev-bugfix"
    }
}

Private Github repository

Exactly the same solution allows you to work with your private repositories at GitHub and BitBucket:

{
    "require": {
        "vendor/my-private-repo": "dev-master"
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url":  "[email protected]:vendor/my-private-repo.git"
        }
    ]
}

The only requirement is the installation of SSH keys for a git client.

Reference here.

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Using the CLI to install

composer config repositories.foo vcs https://github.com/foo/bar

After these commands run the command below in the root of your Magento 2 installation.

alias mage="php -d memory_limit=-1 -f bin/magento" &&
mage setup:upgrade && 
mage setup:upgrade && mage cache:flush