Renamed repos

[Borales]

Constant requesting token access for renamed public repos (while trying to get repo info for the previous address). For example:
Old address - https://github.com/ask11/storage, new address - https://github.com/alekseykulikov/storage

I'm getting an error:

Your GitHub credentials are required to fetch private repository metadata (git://github.com/ask11/storage.git)
The credentials will be swapped for an OAuth token stored in <file>, your password will not be stored
To revoke access to this token you can visit https://github.com/settings/applications

Is there a way to fix this?
(Another example is https://github.com/NickQiZhu/dc.js => https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js)

Thanks.

[Borales]

I've tried to set extra params:

"asset-repositories": [
    {
        "type": "bower-vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/dc-js/dc.js.git"
    },{
        "type": "bower-vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/alekseykulikov/storage.git"
    }
]

The error still occurs

[francoispluchino]

However there is still a bug with packages that use the version numbers found only in the file package.json/bower.json in a branch. This should be fixed with this issue #21.

Concerning the case of redirects, the problem may be that Composer cannot yet handle redirects in VCS Repositories (see this issue #24 and this gist).

I continue to solve these 2 problems for the next beta.

[francoispluchino]

I think I can fix the redirection problem directly in the plugin.

[Borales]

@francoispluchino that would be great! Thanks

[francoispluchino]

You can now overwrite a VCS Repository of the asset registry by a custom config directly in the root file composer.json (see b116949).

You will find the doc here.

Concerning the redirection, I added an dedicated issue (see #24).