How to run drush using locally modified repo (from github fork)

Jonathan1055

11/4/23, 1:54 PM

I have my own drush repo forked from https://github.com/drush-ops/drush and have a local clone of this, as I want to start modifying and potentially push back to add a new function. How do I configure a local drupal site to use my local repo? I have tried replacing vendor/drush with a symlink to my repo but that produced the following

PHP Fatal error:
Declaration of DrupalCodeGenerator\Command\DrupalGenerator::getDestination(array $vars): ?string
must be compatible with DrupalCodeGenerator\Command\GeneratorInterface::getDestination()
in /path-to-my-drush-repo/vendor/chi-teck/drupal-code-generator/src/Command/DrupalGenerator.php
 on line 141

I have tried tracking down the cause of that problem, but I dont think this is right way to solve it. I must be doing something else wrong. I want to contribute to drush development but getting stuck here.

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cilefen

11/4/23, 2:05 PM

Add the path to the local Git working copy as a VCS repository in the Drupal project with a file:// URI. Specify dev-your-branch-name for the package version.

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cilefen

11/4/23, 2:20 PM

You can alternatively use a “path” repository type: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29994088/composer-require-local-package

Jonathan1055

11/4/23, 5:45 PM

Thanks cilefen. After I figured out that the file:// url needs three / it recognised the path `{ "type": "vcs", "url": "file:///path/to/my/repo/drush/" }, `

Jonathan1055

11/4/23, 6:10 PM

after doing `composer update drush/drush:"11.x-dev"` it appears that I have the 11.x-dev branch, but I can't get the modified command to be found.

Jonathan1055

11/5/23, 4:55 PM

I have now got to the situation where the environment is recognising my new branch. Using `dev-11.x` only complained that all it could find was `11.x-dev` which was not my repo. So I checked out a new drush branch, say, `my-bugfix` and then had `require "drush/drush": "dev-my-bugfix"` and this works of sorts. I can commit to the branch and then `composer update drush/drush` and this gets my modified code. But I can't get it to simply use the latest changes without any commit and update. There must be a way to use the repo dynamically without having to commit and update every change?

cilefen

11/5/23, 6:07 PM

You can also check out a branch of a given project in the vendor directory for real-time work.

Jonathan1055

11/6/23, 2:31 PM

Solved this my replacing the directory `vendor/drush/drush/src/Drupal/Commands` with a symlink to the corresponding directory in my drush git repo

Jonathan1055

11/6/23, 2:33 PM

ah, comments crossed, I did not see your last. Thank you.

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