symfony composer question

[spiderjoe02]

Hi, I'm new to symfony and composer. I've managed to install symfony on my local computer (using windows).

The problem is when i execute:

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php composer.phar update

the total size of the vendor directory is over 100 MB. Is this right?
I've noticed that .git directory is the cause of this. How can I copy just the code, not the repository?
My point is I need to make the size of my site as minimal as possible.

Note: I'm using the standard composer.json comes from symfony installation.

Please help. Thanks before.

[tiagojsag]

Hi,

Apart from the code itself, composer only downloads .git files, which are usually really really small. After you run composer.phar update/install, you can delete those, but you'd have to repeat that process after each update/install, and I'm not sure how composer would behave if you did that.

cheers

[spiderjoe02]

Hi tiagojsag,
Thanks for the reply

I found out that i can fix this by using "--prefer-dist" flag. .git directory is not downloaded by composer. Is this okay?

Thanks

[tiagojsag]

I'm not composer proficient, I just use the basics of it. But if you really need to save up on space, and that flag removes .git stuff, go ahead

[dreipunktnull]

Is this okay?

Yes, it is. It's also the preferred way in production.