# git-open mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für git-open in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:git-open
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-open
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-open
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-open/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:git-open
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Open GitHub webpages from a terminal
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/git-open>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/git-open>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- git-open (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

git-open is a small terminal utility for opening GitHub repository pages in a web browser. The README describes it as a way to type less when jumping from the shell to a repository page.

### Projektgeschichte

Jeff Iacono created the GitHub repository in 2012. The project kept the form of a simple shell script, with a README that documents cloning, symlinking the script into the user's PATH, and running git-open with a user and repository name.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

The tool remained small, but it was packaged for Homebrew and Nix, giving it a path into common developer workstations. GitHub releases in 2018 and 2019 show later maintenance beyond the initial script publication.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Developers use git-open when they know a repository name and want the corresponding GitHub page without manually assembling the URL. The script can infer a default user from GITHUB_USER or git config github.user, and it can target GitHub Enterprise installations through GITHUB_URL.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

git-open is representative of packageable shell conveniences: one command wraps a repeated browser-opening pattern, honors a few environment variables, and avoids introducing a full forge client.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012: Repository was created on GitHub.
- 2018: v1.2 release was published.
- 2019: v1.3 release was published.

### Related projects

- GitHub Enterprise
- git config github.user
- Homebrew formulae for shell helpers

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-open>
- <https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/git-open>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeffreyiacono/git-open/master/README.md>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - git-open: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-open/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/git-open.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/git-open.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph