How to painlessly fix a third party package?

Question

PHP

I'm doing a project on Laravel;
One of the packages loaded with Composer from Packagist.org I need to edit. And then upload the project to a Git server. However, the Vendor folder must be in Gitignore.
How is it more logical and correct to make the package that I have corrected loaded by composer install / update?

Answer 1

1. Fork
2.

"repositories": [
          {
              "type": "vcs",
              "url": "https://github.com/S-anasol/myfork"
          }
    ],

3. composer require "s-anasol/myfork"
4. composer remove "original/package"

Answer 2

If this task can be solved by means of OOP, then you need to do this:
1. Derivate from the class that needs to be edited
2. Redefine the necessary methods in it with your own, corrected versions.
3. Slip your class everywhere instead of the original one.

Answer 3

If the package is public (and this is most likely the case, i.e. free) - fix it and add it to the package manager, while downloading your own package.
Or, "forcibly" throw the vendor folder with this package.
Ps: there may be another (more reasonable) solution.