fhaase/composer-patches-generate

Command to create composer patches via cli

v0.1.0 2025-10-10 20:10 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• symfony/console: >=5.4
• symfony/process: >=5.4

Suggests

• cweagans/composer-patches: To apply patches during composer install

MIT

• Fabian Haase

• composer-patches

README

Generate .patch files with a single command.

Install

Make sure git and find are installed.

git version           
-> git version 1.51.0

find --version
-> find (GNU findutils) 4.10.0-dirty

composer require --dev fhaase/composer-patches-command

# Recommended to apply patches on install
composer require cweagans/composer-patches

Usage

Generate or update patch files

1. Create a copy of a file with *.old suffix inside one of the composer packages
2. Modify the original file
   There should now be files like this:

   UserFactory.php
   UserFactory.php.old
   

3. Run the command with the package name
   vendor/bin/composer-patches-generate vendor/example
4. When prompted, you can give a short description to generate configuration for cweagans/composer-patches \

   {
      "extra": {
          "patches": {
              "vendor/example": {
                  "description": "patches/vendor_example/UserFactory.patch"
              }
          }
      }
   }