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How to load a sandbox project via composer and enable other devs on project to commit to the sandbox project

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Jnicola

I'm working on an install profile right now in Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/sandbox/jnicola/3277854). I want to while developing the next project we're on also build this out during the initial part of building our site out.

I can load the sandbox project via composer no problem, and it's checked out via git, but when I run git status I get "HEAD detached at 56eaaa5"

I'd like the sandbox repo to be checked out on the active development branch, and I want to be able to work inside of that project inside of Drupal in general.

It is fairly important that this is brought in via composer as well, since I will be adding modules requirements into the sandboxes composer.json file for the overall project, so I believe bringing in the repo as a "submodule" wouldn't work, even though that is the desired functionality.

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cilefen
My answer below is the way. Avoid Git submodules.
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Kevin
Yes, git submodules are needlessly complex for this line of work usually.
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cilefen

Reference this project version in composer.json as 1.0.x-dev. This is documented by Composer. Composer checks out a commit, so cd into the project working copy and type git checkout 1.0.x.

In detail, composer.json should contain this in the repositories section:

        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://git.drupalcode.org/sandbox/jnicola-3277854.git"
        }

Then you type:

composer require 'drupal/simple_grouped_content:1.0.x-dev'
cd profiles/contrib/simple_group_content
git checkout 1.0.x

This is a Composer question rather than a Drupal question.

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Kevin
Yes, they commit and push to that sandbox, every time you composer update (module) it will pull changes.
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cilefen
Use `1.0.x-dev@dev` if there is a conflict with the minimum-stability set in this project.
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Jnicola
Is there a way to make this work where the branch is checked out by default and not starting in a detatched state? It's minor, I know, but my teammates will use any excuse to complain about this methodology, no matter how minor.
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cilefen
That’s a Composer question. I am not sure there is a way. See also https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/291875/how-can-i-prevent-composer-from-detaching-a-modules-head
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cilefen
Here is the same question again, ten years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12284090/no-branch-when-installing-with-composer-json It as answered by the Composer team lead. But the OP actually opened the feature request as asked, and according to the feature they did change the behavior but were concerned about side effects: https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/1164 Maybe they reverted it.
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