How to fork with reverse dependencies?

[x-yuri]

I forked laravel/framework and want to use clone's testing-encoding branch:

{
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/x-yuri/framework"
        }
    ],
    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "dev-testing-encoding"
    }
}

Output of composer diagnose:

You are running composer with xdebug enabled. This has a major impact on runtime performance. See https://getcomposer.org/xdebug
Checking composer.json: WARNING
No license specified, it is recommended to do so. For closed-source software you may use "proprietary" as license.
Checking platform settings: WARNING
The xdebug extension is loaded, this can slow down Composer a little.
 Disabling it when using Composer is recommended.

Checking git settings: OK
Checking http connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking https connectivity to packagist: OK
Checking github.com oauth access: OK
Checking disk free space: OK
Checking pubkeys:
Tags Public Key Fingerprint: 57815BA2 7E54DC31 7ECC7CC5 573090D0  87719BA6 8F3BB723 4E5D42D0 84A14642
Dev Public Key Fingerprint: 4AC45767 E5EC2265 2F0C1167 CBBB8A2B  0C708369 153E328C AD90147D AFE50952
OK
Checking composer version: OK

When I run composer require modelizer/selenium, I get the following output:

You are running composer with xdebug enabled. This has a major impact on runtime performance. See https://getcomposer.o
rg/xdebug
Using version ^1.1 for modelizer/selenium                      
./composer.json has been updated
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)                  
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for modelizer/selenium ^1.1 -> satisfiable by modelizer/selenium[v1.1.0].
    - Conclusion: remove laravel/framework dev-testing-encoding
    - Conclusion: don't install laravel/framework dev-testing-encoding
    - modelizer/selenium v1.1.0 requires laravel/framework ^5.1 -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[5.4.x-dev, 5.1.x-de
v, 5.2.x-dev, 5.3.x-dev].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[5.1.x-dev, dev-testing-encoding].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[5.2.x-dev, dev-testing-encoding].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[5.3.x-dev, dev-testing-encoding].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[5.4.x-dev, dev-testing-encoding].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[dev-testing-encoding, 5.4.x-dev].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[dev-testing-encoding, 5.1.x-dev].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[dev-testing-encoding, 5.2.x-dev].
    - Can only install one of: laravel/framework[dev-testing-encoding, 5.3.x-dev].
    - Installation request for laravel/framework dev-testing-encoding -> satisfiable by laravel/framework[dev-testing-e
ncoding].


Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json to its original content.

I tried to experiment with minimum-stability, and stability flags. To no avail. The best I could come up with is fork modelizer/selenium as well, and hardcode there laravel's branch I need:

diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 9036e47..65facf0 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -12,8 +12,14 @@
             "email": "john.hoopes@madisoncreativeweb.com"
         }
     ],
+    "repositories": [
+        {
+            "type": "vcs",
+            "url": "https://github.com/x-yuri/framework"
+        }
+    ],
     "require": {
-        "laravel/framework": "^5.1",
+        "laravel/framework": "dev-testing-encoding",
         "symfony/process": ">=2.7",
         "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": ">=1.2",
         "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.2"

Add the repo to root composer.json:

{
    "type": "vcs",
    "url": "https://github.com/x-yuri/Selenium"
}

And then do: composer require modelizer/selenium=dev-laravel-testing-encoding. Which also means, I've got to fork laravel/socialite too, though it doesn't require laravel/framework directly. Can it be any simpler than this?

[stof]

use version aliases: https://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/aliases.md

[alcohol]

What @stof said:

    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "dev-testing-encoding as 5.1.0"
    }

[x-yuri]

Awesome, guys, you've made my day :)