Pretty-print changes to composer.lock

[danepowell]

Changes to composer.lock are essentially impossible for humans to parse, which can and has led to unintended changes on multiple projects.

https://github.com/davidrjonas/composer-lock-diff is a plugin that pretty-prints these changes. I've implemented a PoC of this in some of our closed-source projects to pretty-print the diff in Travis CI and it works great! I can't share a direct link here but the changes required are minimal:

And here's the output:

Could we get this in ORCA?

As a bonus/follow-up feature, I think it would be nice to actually append this output as a comment on any Github PR that modifies composer.lock so it's more visible and not buried in Travis CI. But even in the current form it's still really useful.

[TravisCarden]

Adding this to our internal Jira backlog as ORCA-212.

[Raksha-Bharuka]

Closing this issue because it has been inactive.