Clarify documentation that commit refs are unsupported

Following the discussion in #5823 it has become clear that this feature is supplied at-your-own-risk, this should be more explicitly reflected in its documentation.
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Niels Keurentjes 8 years ago
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@ -316,12 +316,12 @@ Example:
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> **Note:** While this is convenient at times, it should not be how you use
> packages in the long term because it comes with a technical limitation. The
> **Note:** This feature has severe technical limitations, as the
> composer.json metadata will still be read from the branch name you specify
> before the hash. Because of that in some cases it will not be a practical
> workaround, and you should always try to switch to tagged releases as soon
> as you can.
> before the hash. You should therefore only use this as a temporary solution
> during development to remediate transient issues, until you can switch to
> tagged releases. The Composer team does not actively support this feature
> and will not accept bug reports related to it.
It is also possible to inline-alias a package constraint so that it matches
a constraint that it otherwise would not. For more information [see the

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