How to require (include) forked repository in your project? Well if you try to just include it using composer require you will see next error  message

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Pulling forked repo Error
Pulling forked repo Error

So here is what you need to do:

1. In composer.json add to require original repo with forked branch name

2. Add to composer.json repository with forked url

 

Confused? Here is an example:

So, the original repository is aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel  and forked repo out of the original is  Kussie/aws-sdk-php-laravel which BTW contains the needed changes and they are stored in branch called "laravel-8-support"

 

So to include the forked repo, open the composer.json and add this line to "require" section:

                    "require": {
        ...,
        "aws/aws-sdk-php-laravel": "dev-laravel-8-support"
    },

and then again in composer.json at the end add this:

                    "repositories": [
    {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/Kussie/aws-sdk-php-laravel"
    }

 

and now you can run the github command:

                    composer update

 

aaand...Your package will be installed 🤘