Topic on Talk:Download from Git/Flow

I have a question regarding /vendor (#Fetch_external_libraries)

I am downloading with

• git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/core.git --depth=1 --branch 1.35.1 mediawiki

• git submodule update --init --recursive

When I look under /vendor, I can see that it is not empty. Is it possible that in my case it is not necessary to use composer or download from git once more?

From what I understand I only need composer for additional extensions?

Right, MW's git repo has a vendor submodule. If you just use that git checkout, you don't need to run composer update (unless you want to update one of the dependencies).