How to get a branch with composer

Question

Hi I'm really new to composer. I am using this repo: https://github.com/irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk I ran this command in my project: composer require irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk Composer installed version 2.2.0

{
    "require": {
        "irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk": "^2.2"
    }
}

But when I listed the files in vendor/irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk/src/ I just had these files:

Actions.php  
Commands    
FileUpload   
Laravel  
TelegramClient.php   
TelegramResponse.php Api.php      
Exceptions  
HttpClients  
Objects  
TelegramRequest.php

but as you see here there are a lot more files. I checked branches: github.com/irazasyed/telegram-bot-sdk/branches and found out that composer is installing "2.0" branch but I want it to use "master" branch . How can I do that?

Answer 1

If you are targeting a branch, you should require the branchname -dev, eg master-dev . But note that some will commit their newest update to the master branch which could break backward compatibility.