Contributing to Composer

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Installation from Source

Prior to contributing to Composer, you must use be able to run the tests. To achieve this, you must use the sources and not the phar file.

Run git clone https://github.com/composer/composer.git
Download the composer.phar executable
Run Composer to get the dependencies: cd composer && php ../composer.phar install

You can now run Composer by executing the bin/composer script: php /path/to/composer/bin/composer

Fork the project, create a feature branch, and send us a pull request.

To ensure a consistent code base, you should make sure the code follows the PSR-2 Coding Standards.

If you would like to help, take a look at the list of issues.