From 051118c500769d818bf85b0aecef20fa322ab9a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Kautz <uk@fortrabbit.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:56:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check for necessity of VCS cleanup when --prefer-dist is used
 (only project package, so far)

---
 src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
index 99646ba13..00bb21094 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/CreateProjectCommand.php
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ EOT
         if ($package->getRepository() instanceof NotifiableRepositoryInterface) {
             $package->getRepository()->notifyInstall($package);
         }
+        $installedFromVcs = 'source' === $package->getInstallationSource();
 
         $io->write('<info>Created project in ' . $directory . '</info>');
         chdir($directory);
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ EOT
             !$io->isInteractive() ||
             $io->askConfirmation('<info>Do you want to remove the exisitng VCS (.git, .svn..) history?</info> [<comment>Y,n</comment>]? ', true)
             )
+            && (!$preferDist || $installedFromVcs)
         ) {
             $finder = new Finder();
             $finder->depth(1)->directories()->in(getcwd())->ignoreVCS(false)->ignoreDotFiles(false);