2 files changed, 63 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js b/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js
index ea10eae1a..4efc37806 100644
--- a/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js
+++ b/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ var tar = require('tar')
 var once = require('once')
 var semver = require('semver')
 var readPackageTree = require('read-package-tree')
+var readPackageJson = require('read-package-json')
 var iferr = require('iferr')
 var rimraf = require('rimraf')
 var clone = require('lodash.clonedeep')
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ module.exports = function fetchPackageMetadata (spec, where, tracker, done) {
   }
   if (dep.type === 'version' || dep.type === 'range' || dep.type === 'tag') {
     fetchNamedPackageData(dep, addRequestedAndFinish)
+  } else if (dep.type === 'directory') {
+    fetchDirectoryPackageData(dep, where, addRequestedAndFinish)
   } else {
     fetchOtherPackageData(spec, dep, where, addRequestedAndFinish)
   }
@@ -80,6 +83,12 @@ function fetchOtherPackageData (spec, dep, where, next) {
   }))
 }
 
+function fetchDirectoryPackageData (dep, where, next) {
+  validate('OSF', arguments)
+  log.silly('fetchDirectoryPackageData', dep.name || dep.rawSpec)
+  readPackageJson(path.join(dep.spec, 'package.json'), false, next)
+}
+
 var regCache = {}
 
 function fetchNamedPackageData (dep, next) {
diff --git a/test/tap/verify-no-lifecycle-on-repo.js b/test/tap/verify-no-lifecycle-on-repo.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..29f79e298
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tap/verify-no-lifecycle-on-repo.js
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+'use strict'
+var path = require('path')
+var fs = require('graceful-fs')
+var mkdirp = require('mkdirp')
+var rimraf = require('rimraf')
+var test = require('tap').test
+var common = require('../common-tap.js')
+
+var base = path.join(__dirname, path.basename(__filename, '.js'))
+
+var baseJSON = {
+  name: 'base',
+  version: '1.0.0',
+  repository: {
+    type: 'git',
+    url: 'http://example.com'
+  },
+  scripts: {
+    prepublish: 'false'
+  }
+}
+
+test('setup', function (t) {
+  cleanup()
+  setup()
+  t.end()
+})
+
+test('repo', function (t) {
+  common.npm(['repo', '--browser=echo'], {cwd: base}, function (er, code, stdout, stderr) {
+    t.ifError(er, 'npm config ran without issue')
+    t.is(code, 0, 'exited with a non-error code')
+    t.is(stderr, '', 'Ran without errors')
+    t.end()
+  })
+})
+
+test('cleanup', function (t) {
+  cleanup()
+  t.end()
+})
+
+function saveJson (pkgPath, json) {
+  mkdirp.sync(pkgPath)
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(pkgPath, 'package.json'), JSON.stringify(json, null, 2))
+}
+
+function setup () {
+  saveJson(base, baseJSON)
+}
+
+function cleanup () {
+  rimraf.sync(base)
+}