TL;DR: You need to pass the location of the local folder as a repository and then make sure you set the “–prefer-dist” value to “@dev”. Just replace everything in caps below and you are good to go! composer create-project –prefer-dist SOURCE_SCOPE/SOURCE_NAME=”@dev” NEW_PROJECT_NAME –repository ‘{“type”: “path”, “url”: “/PATH/TO/THE/SOURCE/PROJECT”, “options”: {“symlink”: false}}’ I was recently working on […]