From 292bd3f6a3860de38ed8bfcfda8e1c299db43627 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Lu=C3=ADs=20Faceira?= <luis.faceira@beubi.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:09:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use vcs dir as git reference, if existing, to speed up
 download

Also added home dir to default initial settings
---
 src/Composer/Config.php                   | 1 +
 src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Config.php b/src/Composer/Config.php
index 59306f9d2..d8da9f215 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Config.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Config.php
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ class Config
         'platform' => array(),
         'archive-format' => 'tar',
         'archive-dir' => '.',
+        'home' => '$HOME'
         // valid keys without defaults (auth config stuff):
         // bitbucket-oauth
         // github-oauth
diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
index 94a8d78d9..c6767d2fe 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/GitDownloader.php
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ class GitDownloader extends VcsDownloader implements DvcsDownloaderInterface
     {
         GitUtil::cleanEnv();
         $path = $this->normalizePath($path);
+        $cachePath = $this->config->get('cache-vcs-dir').'/'.preg_replace('{[^a-z0-9.]}i', '-', $url).'/';
+        $cacheOptions = file_exists($cachePath) ? $cacheOptions = '--reference '.$cachePath.' ' : '';
 
         $ref = $package->getSourceReference();
         $flag = Platform::isWindows() ? '/D ' : '';
-        $command = 'git clone --no-checkout %s %s && cd '.$flag.'%2$s && git remote add composer %1$s && git fetch composer';
+        $command = 'git clone --no-checkout %s %s '.$cacheOptions.'&& cd '.$flag.'%2$s && git remote add composer %1$s && git fetch composer';
         $this->io->writeError("    Cloning ".$ref);
 
         $commandCallable = function ($url) use ($ref, $path, $command) {