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# Should I commit the dependencies in my vendor directory?
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The general recommendation is **no**. The vendor directory (or wherever your
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dependencies are installed) should be added to `.gitignore`/`svn:ignore`/etc.
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The best practice is to then have all the developers use Composer to install
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the dependencies. Similarly, the build server, CI, deployment tools etc should
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be adapted to run Composer as part of their project bootstrapping.
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While it can be tempting to commit it in some environment, it leads to a few
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problems:
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- Large VCS repository size and diffs when you update code.
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- Duplication of the history of all your dependencies in your own VCS.
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- Adding dependencies installed via git to a git repo will show them as
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submodules. This is problematic because they are not real submodules, and you
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will run into issues.
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If you really feel like you must do this, you have two options:
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- Limit yourself to installing tagged releases (no dev versions), so that you
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only get zipped installs, and avoid problems with the git "submodules".
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- Remove the .git directory of every dependency after the installation, then
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you can add them to your git repo. You can do that with `rm -rf vendor/**/.git`
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but this means you will have to delete those dependencies from disk before
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running composer update. |