Starter composer.json for a Magento 1 project

composer.json

{
  "name": "vendor/your-project",
  "description": "Your Awesome Project",
  "require": {
    "aydin-hassan/magento-core-composer-installer": "^1.3",
    "magento/magento": "1.9.2.2",
    "magento-hackathon/magento-composer-installer": "3.0.*"
  },
  "repositories": [
    {
      "type": "composer",
      "url": "http://packages.firegento.com"
    },
    {
      "type": "vcs",
      "url": "git@github.com:AydinHassan/magento-community.git"
    }
  ],
  "extra": {
    "magento-root-dir": ".",
    "magento-core-deploy": {
      "excludes": [
        "composer.json",
        "composer.lock"
      ]
    },
    "auto-append-gitignore": true
  }
}