How to make composer NOT create a .git directory for a package

Question

I found a couple related posts, but those don\'t really answer my question. Let\'s say I want to install this package: https://github.com/pear/Net_Socket

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Answer 1

composer update --prefer-dist works fine, but it might be simpler to just change the default download method for composer packages (composer.json):

{
"config": {
    "preferred-install": {
        "*": "dist"
    }
  }
}

https://getcomposer.org/doc/06-config.md#preferred-install