Use source and not dist in gitlab repositories

[prhost]

Hi,

Is it possible within https://repman.io to use git packages and use source not dist? cloning the repository. I tried to add a project via the url git@git... but I got this error

[akondas]

It should be possible with https:// url format, but this approach will require to add credentials to url ... :thinking: which not necessarily is something you want to do.

[prhost]

It should be possible with https:// url format, but this approach will require to add credentials to url ... 🤔 which not necessarily is something you want to do.

is that I needed the source version at my place of work, as I change and version directly in the package I'm using.

I resolved temporarily by creating a token in gitlab and using my https://user:token@git... this way it downloads the source version and not just the dist.

[diwipl]

I just tried such a scenario since I also need it in my organization.

After adding the package through the gitlab integration I was able to download the package along with its respective git repository either by running: composer update --prefer-source or by defining in the composer.json:

 "config": {
    "preferred-install": {
      "*": "source"
    }
  }

and running composer update