# git-recent mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

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

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-recent
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

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

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:git-recent
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.2.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Browse your latest git branches, formatted real fancy
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- git-recent (Alias)
- git-recent-og (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2.2.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

git-recent is a Git branch navigation helper by Paul Irish for browsing recently touched branches and checking one out with a short interactive flow.

### Projektgeschichte

The README records the tool's origin in Paul Irish's dotfiles in May 2016, followed by a standalone repository and npm publication in August 2016. The original script became git-recent-og after the 2.0 rewrite.

The 2.0 line, released in 2025 according to the changelog, added an fzf-based interactive UI for browsing branches, viewing branch-specific commits, inspecting a diff against main, and checking out the selected branch.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

git-recent spread as a small personal-workflow utility through npm and Homebrew, with Nix also recorded in the input package metadata. Its adoption significance comes less from enterprise deployment and more from shell users copying a tiny Git helper into daily branch-switching habits.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners run git recent inside a repository, navigate the fzf list of branches, press Enter to check out a selection, and use Ctrl-O to inspect a diff. The README notes optional delta integration for formatted diffs and worktree detection that can guide a user to an existing checkout.

Users who do not want the fzf dependency can run git recent-og, the renamed 2016 implementation, with options such as -n to limit the number of branches shown.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

git-recent is a compact example of the Git subcommand packaging pattern: one executable on PATH becomes a Git verb, distributed through npm, Homebrew, and Nix, and upgraded without changing the underlying Git data model.

### Zeitleiste

- 2016: Script added to paulirish/dotfiles.
- 2016: Standalone repository released and package published to npm.
- 2018: Count parameter added.
- 2019: Final 1.x bugfix recorded in the README changelog.
- 2025: 2.0 upgrade added fzf integration and renamed the original implementation to git-recent-og.

### Related projects

- fzf powers the 2.x interactive branch picker.
- delta can format diffs shown from the interactive UI.
- The README points branch-navigation enthusiasts to git-fuzzy, lazygit, tig, and fzf-git.sh.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-recent>
- <https://github.com/paulirish/dotfiles/commit/1ca1ff760832af558447145fa2a367046b1829d2>
- <https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent>
- <https://github.com/paulirish/git-recent#readme>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - git-recent: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-recent/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-recent.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/git-recent.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