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How to version control with Git whilst using composer?

So I’ve been going through the steep learning curve from D7 to D9.

I like to use git for deployment and version control. I’m new to composer as I only know Drupal and it was never used.

I’ve developed the whole website using composer and drush on my local machine. Namely composer require drupal/[modulename] && drush en [modulename]-y

I moved the example.gitignore file from the web directory to the base as .gitignore. Updated the paths to reflect the move.

Without the comments it contain this:

web/core vendor web/sites/*/settings*.php web/sites/*/services*.yml web/sites/*/files web/sites/*/files/private web/sites/simpletest

Having completed the website I ran the usual commands on my local copy.

drush cex && git add . && git commit -m "Some commit message" && git push origin master

On my server I pulled the code down and imported my database. I read that I then run composer install.

After that, my contrib module patches were overridden? I’m guessing that the composer install command grabs fresh copies of everything?

What then is the correct method?

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