# gotags mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:gotags
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gotags
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gotags
```

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

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:gotags
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.1
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Tag generator for Go, compatible with ctags
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-07-25T20:55:26-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gotags (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.4.1
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

gotags is a small Go command-line tool that emits ctags-compatible tag files for Go source code. Its role is intentionally narrow: make Go symbols available to editors and tag browsers that already understand the ctags format.

### Projektgeschichte

The GitHub repository was created in March 2012, early in Go's public tooling era, and the v1.0.0 tag points at a March 2012 commit that updated the README and screenshot. The README describes gotags as a ctags-compatible tag generator for Go and documents editor-oriented flags such as recursive traversal, standard-output writing, and sorted tag output.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

Adoption appears to have been concentrated in editor workflows rather than broad application stacks. The README includes Vim Tagbar configuration and an Emacs integration through gotags-el, and Homebrew packages the tool as a standalone formula.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run gotags over Go source files or directories and consume the generated tag file from editors. The tool is most useful in environments where ctags-style navigation remains part of the developer setup.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

For package collectors, gotags is representative of the pre-language-server layer of Go editor tooling: tiny, single-purpose, and built to bridge Go code into older Unix editor conventions.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012: Repository created and v1.0.0 tagged.
- 2017: v1.4.1 tag recorded with a version-string update.
- 2021: Repository activity includes commits through April 2021.

### Related projects

- ctags provides the tag-file convention that gotags targets.
- Vim Tagbar and gotags-el are editor-side consumers of gotags output.

### Quellen

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gotags>
- <https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags>
- <https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags#readme>
- <https://github.com/jstemmer/gotags/tags>


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

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