added --useHttp option to dev command

allows to clone repos using HTTP only, not SSH

issue yiisoft#3267

build/controllers/DevController.php

@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ class DevController extends Controller
 {
     public $defaultAction = 'all';
 
+    /**
+     * @var bool whether to use HTTP when cloning github repositories
+     */
+    public $useHttp = false;
+
     public $apps = [
         'basic' => '[email protected]:yiisoft/yii2-app-basic.git',
         'advanced' => '[email protected]:yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced.git',
@@ -63,14 +68,14 @@ public function actionAll()
         }
 
         foreach($this->extensions as $ext => $repo) {
-            $ret = $this->actionExt($ext, $repo);
+            $ret = $this->actionExt($ext);
             if ($ret !== 0) {
                 return $ret;
             }
         }
 
         foreach($this->apps as $app => $repo) {
-            $ret = $this->actionApp($app, $repo);
+            $ret = $this->actionApp($app);
             if ($ret !== 0) {
                 return $ret;
             }
@@ -136,6 +141,9 @@ public function actionApp($app, $repo = null)
             if (empty($repo)) {
                 if (isset($this->apps[$app])) {
                     $repo = $this->apps[$app];
+                    if ($this->useHttp) {
+                        $repo = str_replace('[email protected]:', 'https://github.com/', $repo);
+                    }
                 } else {
                     $this->stderr("Repo argument is required for app '$app'.\n", Console::FG_RED);
                     return 1;
@@ -182,6 +190,9 @@ public function actionExt($extension, $repo = null)
             if (empty($repo)) {
                 if (isset($this->extensions[$extension])) {
                     $repo = $this->extensions[$extension];
+                    if ($this->useHttp) {
+                        $repo = str_replace('[email protected]:', 'https://github.com/', $repo);
+                    }
                 } else {
                     $this->stderr("Repo argument is required for extension '$extension'.\n", Console::FG_RED);
                     return 1;
@@ -212,6 +223,15 @@ public function actionExt($extension, $repo = null)
         return 0;
     }
 
+    public function options($actionID)
+    {
+        $options = parent::options($actionID);
+        if (in_array($actionID, ['ext', 'app', 'all'])) {
+            $options[] = 'useHttp';
+        }
+        return $options;
+    }
+
 
     protected function cleanupVendorDir($dir)
     {

docs/internals/git-workflow.md

@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ The following steps are not necessary if you want to work only on translations o
 
   This command will also be used to update dependencies, it runs `composer update` internally.
 
+> Note: The default git repository Urls clone from github via SSH, you may add the `--useHttp` flag to the `build` command
+> to use HTTPs instead.
+
 **Now you have a working playground for hacking on Yii 2.**
 
 The following steps are optional.
@@ -72,6 +75,9 @@ normally do e.g. add `"yiisoft/yii2-redis": "*"` to the `require` section of the
 Running `php build/build dev/app basic` will install the extension and its dependecies and create
 a symlink to `extensions/redis` so you are not working in the composer vendor dir but in the yii2 repository directly.
 
+> Note: The default git repository Urls clone from github via SSH, you may add the `--useHttp` flag to the `build` command
+> to use HTTPs instead.
+
 
 Working on bugs and features
 ----------------------------