a composer config. example with various requirements, including public and private GitHub hosted repos. not on packagist

composer.json

{
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "package",
      "package": {
        "name": "matthewpoer/unit-tests",
        "version": "dev-7_6_1",
        "dist": {
          "url": "https://github.com/matthewpoer/unit-tests/archive/7_6_1.zip",
          "type": "zip",
          "reference": "7_6_1"
        },
        "require": {
          "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.4"
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://github.com/sugarcrm/Tidbit"
    }
  ],
  "require": {
    "ryanwinchester/netsuite-php": " 2.*@dev",
    "stripe/stripe-php": "1.*"
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "matthewpoer/unit-tests": "dev-7_6_1",
    "sugarcrm/Tidbit": "dev-master"
  },
  "config": {
    "platform": {
      "php": "5.4"
    },
    "github-oauth": {
      "github.com": "-some-github-oauth-key"
    }
  }
}