Composer: "Repository type is not registered: git"

Out of the blue, my Composer is throwing a fit when I try and install a local repository (having worked perfectly for the past 3 months) using composer install

The error:

[InvalidArgumentException] Repository type is not registered: git

The offending block in the composer.json file:

"repositories": [ { "type": "git", "url": "[email protected]:/xxx/yyy.git" }
],

I've tried completed removing and re-installing composer and changing the 'type' from 'git' to 'github' and 'vcs' as per the official docs. Nothing has helped so far.

3 Answers

My colleague has informed me that this is the cause...

Try with vcs instead of git, as example:

"repositories": [ { "type": "vcs", "url": "[email protected]:/xxx/yyy.git" } ],

More info here

Hope this help

like already mentioned, symfony/flex seemed to be broken (v. v1.0.81?) and composer uses symfony-flex-plugin

so composer install was working only with the parameter --no-plugins

when i used that: a new flex version was installed and my project dependencies where installed, but the absence of plugins luckily failed afterwards only with symfony-cmd: command not found

But since 'flex' was updated composer install was working fine again (plugins working too)