Installer gql avec Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, scoop, winget

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt

Commandes et alias

• gitql

Historique du projet

The repository history begins on 2023-06-02 with commits implementing the base structure and early SELECT, LIMIT, and OFFSET statements. The README describes GitQL as a tool built on the GitQL SDK for SQL-like queries over local Git repositories.

Over time the project expanded from a Git-history query CLI into a reusable SDK with customizable schema, data provider, standard library, type system, value system, and component assembly documentation.

Historique d'adoption

GitQL entered package-manager listings as a Rust-era developer tool for exploring repository metadata without exporting it to a database. The supplied metadata lists Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and winget package names.

The official README also links related SDK-based tools, showing adoption of the query engine idea beyond Git data: LLQL, ClangQL, FileQL, and PyQL.

Modes d'utilisation

Users run SQL-like statements against tables such as commits, branches, refs, tags, and diff changes. README examples include grouping commits by author, filtering refs, ordering branches, and aggregating file-change counts.

The SDK use case is broader: developers can define a schema and provider for a different source of data while reusing GitQL's parser, type system, functions, and query execution pieces.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

GitQL sits in the same package-manager niche as `jq`, `sqlite-utils`, and other exploratory CLI tools: it gives maintainers and developers an ad hoc query surface over data they already have locally.

Its packaging across desktop package managers matters because Git repositories are local working-set data; installing a single CLI is simpler than standing up an indexed service just to ask a one-off history question.

Chronologie

• 2023-06-02: Repository history begins with the first GitQL commits.
• 2023: README license copyright names Amr Hesham.
• 2024-05-18: Project discussion for release 0.19.0 records parser, type-checker, and function work.
• 2025: README copyright range extends through 2025 and lists SDK-based related tools including PyQL.
• 2026-03-09: Repository history records version and dependency update work.

Related projects

• LLQL applies the GitQL SDK idea to LLVM IR/BC.
• ClangQL applies SQL-like querying to C and C++ source code files.
• FileQL applies it to file-system metadata.
• PyQL applies it to Python source code files.

Sources

• https://amrdeveloper.github.io/GQL
• https://amrdeveloper.github.io/GQL/setup
• https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/GQL
• https://github.com/AmrDeveloper/GQL/discussions/100