From a9c0134378bf5c0d537fa3edd9b78acb8c1278de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Graham Daniels <greydnls@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 18:12:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make use of variable

---
 src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php b/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
index 2eefac029..354c661ad 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Command/RequireCommand.php
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ EOT
         $io = $this->getIO();
 
         $newlyCreated = !file_exists($file);
-        if (!file_exists($file) && !file_put_contents($file, "{\n}\n")) {
+        if ($newlyCreated && !file_put_contents($file, "{\n}\n")) {
             $io->writeError('<error>'.$file.' could not be created.</error>');
 
             return 1;