Composer and local git repos

Just had a question in #laravel on freenode which reminded me, I get a bit sick of explaining this. Using local repositories, or any kind of repository with composer is simple. All you need do is tell composer where the package's repsitory lives.

"repositories": [
    {
        "type":"vcs",
        "url":"/Users/trq/src/somerepo"
    }
]

Now, as long as that repository had a valid composer.json file with a name defined, compooser can use it. As an example, my 'somerepo' repository has a composer.json containing:

{
    "name": "trq/somerepo",
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "SomeRepo\\": ["src/"]
        }
    },
    "extra": {
        "branch-alias": {
            "dev-develop": "1.0.x-dev"
        }
    }
}

So, now, all I need do is add that to my dependencies per usual.

"require": {
    "php": ">=5.3.3",
    "symfony/symfony": "2.5.*",
    "doctrine/orm": "~2.2,>=2.2.3",
    "doctrine/doctrine-bundle": "~1.2",
    "twig/extensions": "~1.0",
    "symfony/assetic-bundle": "~2.3",
    "symfony/swiftmailer-bundle": "~2.3",
    "symfony/monolog-bundle": "~2.4",
    "sensio/distribution-bundle": "~3.0",
    "sensio/framework-extra-bundle": "~3.0",
    "incenteev/composer-parameter-handler": "~2.0",
    "trq/somerepo":"~1.0.@dev"
}

Then install:

composer update trq/somerepo

Done.