How create version of a package on github and packagist? PHP Specific

Question

I created a package for laravel 4 framework and pushed it on github and packagist.

For installing it, it require the dev-master version on my composer, but I would like have it as version 1.0 how can I do that?

In the future I'll add some staff on my package and I will need to upgrade the version as well, which is the logic to manage the version of our package?

Answer 1

Tag the commit you want to release as a version in your Git repo, push the tags to Github. Works on every repo as advertised. It might be a good idea to stick to semantic versioning, so make a version number from three parts: 1.0.0, and increment them according to your changes.

Enable the post-push hook on Github to alert Packagist when you pushed - otherwise there will be more delay on Packagist to see the new versions.

And that should be it.

Please make sure you instruct your users to require a tagged version, do not advise them to use "dev-master". And tag a new version as soon as possible if you collected a substantial amount of new features or bug fixes.