Should I ship my vendor directory of composer with GIT

Question

I want to use the autoloader generated by composer for my unit tests to load classes automatically.

Now I don't know if I should commit my vendor directory to my git repo. A pro is that everyone who clones my repo immediately can run the phpUnit tests. A con is that I ship a lot of proprietary code with my repo.

Should I insist that the user who clones my repo has to run composer install first and therefor has to have composer "installed"?

Is it a solution to don't commit vendor directory into my git repo but pack it into a release branch so that my application runs out of the box?

Answer 1

The official recommendation is to ignore vendor/ :

Tip: If you are using git for your project, you probably want to add vendor into your .gitignore . You really don't want to add all of that code to your repository.

Make sure to include both your composer.json and composer.lock files, though.