Best way to install private/paid plugins with Composer?

bedrock
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I Needed a slightly different setup to get my repo to be installed via composer; hopefully this will help someone who may be stuck:

My project’s "repositories" key in the composer.json file has:

    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "https://bitbucket.org/accountname/reponame.git"
}

in "require" i have:

"accountname/reponame":"dev-master"

And in my repo composer.json file I needed to change "dist" into "source" or else it would not work:

{
    "name": "accountname/reponame",
    "version": "master",
    "source": {
        "url": "https://bitbucket.org/accountname/reponame.git",
        "type": "git"
    }
}

finally, while doing the update:

composer update -v --prefer-source
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