John Davidson

Message:

I have the following in my Laravel 5.1 projects composer.json to add a public github repository as a dependency.

...    

"repositories": [

  {

    "type": "package",

    "package": {

      "name": "myVendorName/my_private_repo",

      "version": "1.2.3",

      "source": {

        "type" : "git",

        "url" : "git://github.com/myVendorName/my_private_repo.git",

        "reference" : "master"

      },

      "dist": {

        "url": "https://github.com/myVendorName/my_private_repo/archive/master.zip",

        "type": "zip"

      }

    }

  }

],

"require": {

     ....

    "myVendorName/my_private_repo": "*",

},

...

This works as long as the repository is public. Now I've set this repository to private. The git credentials I use for pulling/pushing to 'my_private_repo' are the one of a colaborator of the project. How can I achieve that composer pulls from that private repository when I run composer update or composer install?

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My Answer:
To add a private GitHub repository as a Composer dependency, you can use the following steps:

1. Generate a personal access token on GitHub:
- Go to your GitHub account settings.
- Click on "Developer settings" > "Personal access tokens" > "Generate new token".
- Give your token a name, select the scopes needed (e.g., repo), and generate the token.
- Copy the generated token as you will need it in the next step.

2. Add the personal access token to your Composer configuration:
- Run the following command in your terminal:

composer config --global github-oauth.github.com

- Replace `` with the token you generated in step 1.

3. Update your composer.json file:
- Modify the "repositories" section in your composer.json file to include the private GitHub repository:

"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/myVendorName/my_private_repo"
}
],

- Update the "require" section to include the private repository as a dependency:

"require": {
"myVendorName/my_private_repo": "dev-master"
},


4. Run composer update or composer install:
- Run the following command in your terminal to update your dependencies:

composer update

- Composer will now use your personal access token to authenticate and pull the private repository as a dependency.

By following these steps, you should be able to add a private GitHub repository as a Composer dependency in your Laravel project.