# Installer vcprompt avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de vcprompt pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:vcprompt
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install vcprompt
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#vcprompt
```

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

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:vcprompt
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.3.0
- **Résumé source:** Provide version control info in shell prompts
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/powerman/vcprompt>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/powerman/vcprompt>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- vcprompt (alias)
- vcprompt-hgst (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.3.0
## Historique du projet et usages

vcprompt is a small command-line helper for showing version-control state in a shell prompt. The powerman repository presents it as a fork of Greg Ward's vcprompt, preserving the original idea of being lightweight rather than comprehensive.

### Historique du projet

The powerman/vcprompt GitHub repository was created on 2013-12-22. Its README explains the fork in pragmatic performance terms: prompt helpers run every time a user gets a new shell prompt, so slow repository-status checks become noticeable quickly.

### Modes d'utilisation

vcprompt is used inside shell prompt definitions to print repository information such as the current version-control system and branch/status markers. The README lists support, to varying degrees, for Mercurial, Git, Subversion, CVS, and Fossil working copies.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Its significance is niche but clear: vcprompt belongs to the pre-heavy-shell-theme era of tiny POSIX prompt utilities. It is the kind of tool package users install when they want repository awareness without adopting a full prompt framework.

### Chronologie

- 2013-12-22: The powerman/vcprompt repository was created on GitHub.
- 2021-10-10: The repository's latest pushed_at timestamp in GitHub API metadata shows later maintenance activity, though the public footprint remains small.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/powerman/vcprompt>
- <https://github.com/powerman/vcprompt>


## Notes de sécurité

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Risque Geiger:** yellow / moyen
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

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


## Sources

- 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