The fastest way to push changes from vendor directory to composer package

Question

I have a Laravel project and I'm using a composer . I have a library in it and I've found a small bug there. It's my custom library under the git .

What is the fastest way to push that changes?

The only way I see from now is to:

• git clone my library to some temporary folder
• Remember and copy-paste all the changes(cause I was fixing but in the /vendor dir)
• Run composer update

Could be there any other, faster way? I'd like make changes right in the vendor dir and somehow push that changes.

PS As an answer I want to receive

No, it's impossible to do faster because of x , y , z .

or

Yes, you can. For that you have to do x , y , z .

Answer 1

Untested…

Linux or macOS: Yes, you can. For that you have to do something like

1. Store your new code somewhere else as backup:

    mv …/vendor/mylib/ …/vendor/mylib_backup/ 

2. Optional: Delete your temp repo:

    rm -r ~/git/mylib/ 

3. Clone your repo:

    git clone repo-url ~/git/mylib 

4. Create a symlink so that if you go into …/vendor/mylib you are really in ~/git/mylib:

    ln -s ~/git/mylib …/vendor/mylib 

5. Run

    composer update 

6. Run

    git status 

Maybe you get some artefacts. You can ignore them in a .gitignore file.

Which system do you use? To create a symlink on Windows you can try mklink IIRC.