Composer require branch name

Question

For example I want to require:

{
  \"repositories\": [
    {
      \"type\": \"git\",
      \"url\": \"https://github.com/google/google-api-php-client.git\"
         


        

Answer 1

You need to prefix all dev branches (= non tagged) by dev-.

To install the branch you need, use:

composer require google/apiclient:dev-v1-master

See composer docs.