Use "composer create-project"?

I want to customize OroCRM as described in the docs, and I see that a) the src/ directory is empty and,b) the actual Oro source code is in vendor/. This matches what I see in the documentation, where my customizations go into src/. So far so good.

My question is, shouldn’t I then use “composer create-project oro/crm-application my-target-dir” instead of “git clone …”? It seems to me that I should commit “my-target-dir” to Git and simply Git ignore the my-target-dir/vendor/ directory. But all of the installation instructions tell me to use “git clone” instead of “composer create-project”.

Does anyone have any experience with this?

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