laravel/laravel — pull request #1626 by rhbecker (2013-01-19 10:45:13+00:00)
Title: Develop

By adding a ***name*** value, you allow developers to bootstrap the entire application installation process directly from composer, via the create-project command; e.g. ...

> composer create-project laravel/laravel:dev-develop path/to/laravel-4-app

This replaces the separate step of having to download and extract a zip file, or clone the application repository.

I'm still learning proper usage of composer, so there may be a better way to enable the above, but I only had success once I added the following to my global composer config file (example assumes you accept my addition to the composer.json file) ...

```json
{
"config": {

},
"repositories": {
"laravel": {
"type": "vcs",
"url": "http://github.com/laravel/laravel"
}
}
}
```