Please exclude the .git folder from the composer builds

[jandrews377]

Hi there. Can you please exclude your .git folder from the composer build. I am (not ideally) including my vendors folder in my git source control and the .git folder in the composer install is clashing. Also, I am eagerly awaiting an undated release, there are changes on you dev-master that I am leaning on in production :) really appreciate your hard work.

[garrettw]

I don't think there's a way to do that. When Composer pulls down packages from Packagist, it's cloning Git repos. That will always come with a .git folder. So I think it would be better for you to fix your project structure to not include your vendor folder in the committed code.
If you want to commit specific versions of dependencies to your repo, just commit your composer.lock file. Then when you run composer install, it will not recalculate all the dependency versions but instead just grab whatever is specified in the lock file.

[TRPB]

I'm also not sure this is possible due to the way composer works. If it is, I'm happy to accept a PR that does this as it seems rather inefficient if composer holds the entire project history for every package it downloads.

[adrian-green]

This is a user-end setting.
See https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#preferred-install

In your composer.json define how you wish dependencies to install as one of "source", "dist" or "auto" (default).

   "config": {
      "preferred-install":  {
         "level-2/*" : "dist"
      }
   }

If you were to examine the "packages" element of the composer.lock you'll find something like the following. (Note the "type": "zip" under "dist"):

"packages": [
    {
        "name": "level-2/dice",
        "version": "dev-master",
        "source": {
            "type": "git",
            "url": "https://github.com/Level-2/Dice.git",
            "reference": "cbcc42205b8ce9fcd04b9fa60fc3da409c7d3fea"
        },
        "dist": {
            "type": "zip",
            "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Level-2/Dice/zipball/cbcc42205b8ce9fcd04b9fa60fc3da409c7d3fea",
            "reference": "cbcc42205b8ce9fcd04b9fa60fc3da409c7d3fea",
            "shasum": ""
        },...