In a Git repository of a project i have made a branch from master starting in a 1.0 tagged commit, and i called this branch 1.0.x-dev
I want to use this branch for patching.
The problem arises when i require the latest patch in another project using:
composer require foo/bar:^1.0
It retrieves the original 1.0 tagged commit, not the latest commit of 1.0.x-dev branch.
I see that this happens because i have setted "prefer-stable": true (otherwise it works)
Then, There is any way to specify to composer that this branch is stable avoiding tagging every patch?
You can use composer require foo/bar:"1.0.x-dev as 1.0.0" in your project - Composer will use 1.0 branch and treat it as 1.0.0 release. For Composer only tagged releases are considered as stable.