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Jul 21, 2016
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Ignoring the Vendor Folder In GIT
Hello guys.
I'm trying to understand the practice of ignoring the vendor folder in a GIT repo. It's not making sense to me because if I need to deploy my project, I would then need to run composer dump-autoload on the server the project is deployed too each time there is a new class, service provider..etc.
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Okay so what if the "vendor/composer" is the only directory in the vendor folder that isn't ignored and placed under version control? I'm asking this because I'm trying to see if it's absolutely necessary to have a hook via shell script to run composer dump-autoload whenever we deploy the repo to a server.
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If you're using git for deployment, you would normally have a post-receive hook. This runs composer install first, followed by php artisan optimize.
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I just read about your suggestion on composer install. This is definitely correct as what I need to do is place composer.lock under version control as well as composer.json. Once I do that, composer install command will install the exact dependencies for my project after the post-receive hook is executed. Thanks for that.
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Glad to help!
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