Add a way to just update the patches section of composer.lock

[cweagans]

This should be done after #12

Need a way to update the patches we're tracking in composer.lock, but not mess with lib versions or anything else. Possibly something like composer update --patches.

[simesy]

This might be helpful composer/composer#4714

[ericduran]

Came here to open this same issue, Need a way to update patches section only.

[hanoii]

Also interested in this, is there a workaround? I guess do nothing and still do composer install, that will add the patch, or is there another better way of coping with adding a patch without updating things?

[bradjones1]

I believe you should be able to update the patch and then composer update --lock which should just update the lockfile...

[hanoii]

That did it yes, interesting, I guess then this is a non-issue?

[cweagans]

This still needs done. composer update --lock only updates the hash in the lock file. The list of patches applied to a given package still needs to be updated, I think.

[hanoii]

I tried it and also updated the patch part of the lock file

[hanoii]

On my case it was a new patch added

[geek-merlin]

There is also composer update nothing. Dunno if this behaves different.

[joelpittet]

@axel-rutz composer/getcomposer.org#92 (comment) It looks to be an undocumented equivalent of composer update --lock

[Incognito]

I would find this feature useful.

[kweij]

I agree with @cweagans that it would be nice to have a way to (re)apply (all) patches and update the lock file.

I'm sorry @bradjones1, but running composer update --lock does not seem to update patches_applied part of the lockfile.

[kweij]

I was sooo wrong. Sorry @bradjones1, you're totally right

[cweagans]

main no longer uses composer.lock because it's not technically feasible. There is now a separate patches.lock, a command to update the lock file, and a command to re-patch stuff as necessary in your project.