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Undocumented trick to make Composer copy a local package repository

I needed to test a Drupal module I was working on in a Docker container. The code was not in a location accessible to Docker. I tried to use Composer to copy it over. This would have worked if the code contained a composer.json file. I could have used a Composer path repository with symlink set to false. But it did not contain a composer.json file, so I had to use a Composer package repository. Composer kept symlinking instead of copying.

Darren Oh Thu, 03/19/2026 - 07:17 Tags

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• Composer

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