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deminy/composer-preserve-paths
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Composer plugin for preserving custom paths and supporting nested packages

0.1.4(9y ago)013.7k1GPL-2.0+PHP

Since Feb 3Pushed 9y ago1 watchersCompare

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Composer preserve paths
=======================

[](#composer-preserve-paths)

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Composer plugin for preserving paths while installing, updating or uninstalling packages.

This way you can:

- provide custom files or directories that will not be overwritten on `composer install` or `composer update`
- place packages within the directory of another package (using a composer installer like [composer/installers](https://packagist.org/packages/composer/installers) or [davidbarratt/custom-installer](https://packagist.org/packages/davidbarratt/custom-installer))

This plugin was originally developed by [Johannes Haseitl](https://github.com/derhasi/composer-preserve-paths). I updated it to allow wildcard pattern matching when defining preserved paths, which is necessary if you have many sites installed with same Drupal installation (i.e., you have many directories like *example.com*, *example.net*, *example.org*, etc under folder *sites/* of your Drupal installation).

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Simply install the plugin with composer: `composer require deminy/composer-preserve-paths`

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

For configuring the paths you need to set `preserve-paths` within the `extra` of your root `composer.json`.

```
{
    "extra": {
        "preserve-paths": [
          "htdocs/sites/all/modules/contrib",
          "htdocs/sites/all/themes/contrib",
          "htdocs/sites/all/libraries",
          "htdocs/sites/all/drush",
          "htdocs/sites/*.com",
          "htdocs/sites/*.net",
          "htdocs/sites/*.org"
        ]
      }
}
```

Example
-------

[](#example)

An example composer.json using [davidbarratt/custom-installer](https://packagist.org/packages/davidbarratt/custom-installer):

```
{
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "https://packagist.drupal-composer.org/"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "davidbarratt/custom-installer": "dev-master",
    "deminy/composer-preserve-paths": "dev-master",
    "drupal/views": "7.*",
    "drupal/drupal": "7.*"
  },
  "config": {
    "vendor-dir": "vendor"
  },
  "extra": {
    "custom-installer": {
      "drupal-module":  "htdocs/sites/all/modules/contrib/{$name}/",
      "drupal-theme":   "htdocs/sites/all/themes/contrib/{$name}/",
      "drupal-library": "htdocs/sites/all/libraries/{$name}/",
      "drupal-drush":   "htdocs/sites/all/drush/{$name}/",
      "drupal-profile": "htdocs/profiles/{$name}/",
      "drupal-core":    "htdocs/"
    },
    "preserve-paths": [
      "htdocs/sites/all/modules/contrib",
      "htdocs/sites/all/themes/contrib",
      "htdocs/sites/all/libraries",
      "htdocs/sites/all/drush",
      "htdocs/sites/*.com",
      "htdocs/sites/*.net",
      "htdocs/sites/*.org"
    ]
  }
}
```

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 69.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3384d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/865547?v=4)[Demin Yin](/maintainers/deminy)[@deminy](https://github.com/deminy)

---

Top Contributors

[![derhasi](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/118502?v=4)](https://github.com/derhasi "derhasi (37 commits)")[![deminy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/865547?v=4)](https://github.com/deminy "deminy (10 commits)")[![bnchdrff](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/99194?v=4)](https://github.com/bnchdrff "bnchdrff (2 commits)")[![markpavlitski](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3777070?v=4)](https://github.com/markpavlitski "markpavlitski (2 commits)")[![NickDickinsonWilde](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/92694?v=4)](https://github.com/NickDickinsonWilde "NickDickinsonWilde (1 commits)")[![webflo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/123946?v=4)](https://github.com/webflo "webflo (1 commits)")

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Tags

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###  Code Quality

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