fhaase/composer-patches-generate

Command to create composer patches via cli

v0.1.1 2026-04-09 12:13 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• symfony/console: >=5.4
• symfony/polyfill-php84: ^1.33
• symfony/process: >=5.4

Suggests

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

MIT

• Fabian Haase

• composer-patches

README

Introduction

A standalone command-line utility to generate patches for cweagans/composer-patches.

Effortlessly capture local modifications to Composer dependencies, commit them to your project, and ensure your custom fixes are reliably applied across all environments during composer install.

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-generate

# 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"
              }
          }
      }
   }

5. Repeat Step 3 to update the patches when further changes are necessary.