composer install --prefer-source not working

[marcgenou]

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• What are you trying to do?

composer install --prefer-source
We use this command with a satis repo and works syncing and cloning packages and source code (.git folders)

• What feature or behavior is this required for?

To work in vendors source code without to move elsewhere

• How could we solve this issue? (Not knowing is okay!)

if this commands worked

• Anything else?

You can see an output here:

Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Package operations: 34 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

• Syncing symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.27.0) into cache
• Downloading XXX/lib (v1.0.2)
• Syncing symfony/deprecation-contracts (v3.2.0) into cache

[...]

• Installing symfony/polyfill-mbstring (v1.27.0): Cloning 8ad114f6b3 from cache
• Installing XXX/lib (v1.0.2): Extracting archive
• Installing symfony/deprecation-contracts (v3.2.0): Cloning 1ee04c6552 from cache

As you can see, downloading instead of syncing and extracting instead of cloning.

Type is hosted for non working private repo. The other one working is a proxy type repository from packagist. Both running in a nexus docker 3.43.0-01

[bartkibilko]

Same issue here. Bump!