private Repo on Bitbucket without installed GIT don't work

[mad99]

Hi together,
Composer is a really cool tool. Thank you very much for this!

There's a point, that left me stuck. Contao's Plugin System is use of Composer. There an error was thrown because I used the included credentials »username:password@« without installed or wrong installed GIT on publish Server. The Error could be from Composer itself.

There is a private Repository on Bitbucket. I would like to use it with the username:password@ included url in composer.json like :
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://username:password@bitbucket.org/ownername/reponame.git"
},
{
"type": "artifact",
"url": "packages"
}
]
On the publish Server, there is no GIT installed nor SSH-KEY file create-able. So the error printout from Composer is:
Failed to clone https://username:***@bitbucket.org/ownername/reponame.git, git was not found, check that it is installed and in your PATH env. git: not found

In Contao-Community (https://community.contao.org/de/showthread.php?56354-funktioniert-Composer-mit-privatem-Bitbucket-Repository-ohne-SSH-Key-auf-Server) a nice guy told me, it could appear because the regular expression in

composer/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/GitBitbucketDriver.php

Line 146 in f10c714

if (!preg_match('#^https?://bitbucket\.org/([^/]+)/(.+?)\.git$#', $url)) {

.

Maybe you could change the Regex, so the username:password@ possibility would work also without installed GIT. Or maybe you could deliver an different Error-Message: Like "Composer can't use your included credentials password:username@ in the url. Please use the auth.json instead of it."

Thanks to michael.g I found a workaround with the auth.json, so I can use the private Bitbucket Repo without installed or wrong installed GIT OR SSH-KEY on the public server. But without Michael I would stuck for a long time ...

Kind regards and thank you very much for your work on composer
Martin

[GromNaN]

The auth.json is the preferred method to handle authentication. You should never commit your credentials. Composer should have asked your credentials interactively.

See also: http://seld.be/notes/authentication-management-in-composer

[frederikbosch]

@mad99 Use auth.json as @GromNaN is saying. But I guess your setup will not work anyway. git was not found, check that it is installed and in your PATH env. git: not found. You cannot use the GitBitbucketDriver on a server that has no git. You should consider changing your deployment strategy.

[kfreiman]

May be, --prefer-dist flag will be helpfull

[frederikbosch]

@kfreiman --prefer-dist is not useful: he is using a vcs (git repo) and not a composer repository.

[mad99]

Thank you for your help.
Strangely, on the server - according to the support - the Git-binary is under /usr/local/bin installed. An <?php var_dump(exec('echo $ PATH')?); produces the output:
string(60) "/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin".
So everything should be correct.
Nevertheless, the auth.json is a good way.

@frederikbosch : > You should consider changing your deployment strategy.
That could be a very good idea :o)). Can you recommend a good »deployment strategy overview« link for composer or in general? I would love to optimize.

[frederikbosch]

@mad99 My advice was meant for the case you do not have git on your server. If this issue is not relevant anymore, please close it.