# Install dud with Homebrew, MacPorts

CLI tool for versioning data. Version 0.4.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with macports: sudo port install dud.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dud
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dud
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install dud
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/dud/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dud
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.4.5
- **Source summary:** CLI tool for versioning data
- **Homepage:** <https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T17:00:36+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dud (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.4.5
## Project history and usage

Dud is a small Go CLI for versioning data beside source code and describing reproducible data pipelines. Its package-nerd interest is that it deliberately narrows the DVC-style data-versioning idea down to explicit commands, symlink-oriented checkouts, and composition with existing Unix tools.

### Project history

The public release line began in 2021 with v0.0.1. The README frames Dud as inspired by DVC but designed around speed, simplicity, explicit commits, and a smaller scope rather than the broader machine-learning workflow covered by DVC.

Dud's design also delegates remote cache operations to Rclone instead of implementing cloud-storage backends itself, which makes the tool an example of a focused CLI leaning on a mature adjacent project.

### Adoption history

Dud has modest adoption compared with DVC, but it crossed into package-manager visibility through Homebrew and MacPorts. GitHub releases continued through the 0.4 series in 2024, indicating an active but niche data-tooling project.

### How it is used

Users initialize Dud in a project, commit large files or directories to a cache, store small stage metadata in source control, and fetch or push cached data as needed. The tool is aimed at teams that want data reproducibility without experiment tracking or automatic cache mutation.

### Why package nerds care

Dud matters as a minimalist counterpoint in the data-versioning package space: it packages a DVC-like workflow as a standalone CLI, favors explicit side effects, and turns Rclone into the remote transport layer rather than growing its own provider matrix.

### Timeline

- 2021: v0.0.1 published as the first GitHub release.
- 2022: v0.3.x releases refined the early command set.
- 2024: v0.4.5 published, keeping Dud available to Homebrew users.

### Related projects

- DVC is Dud's clearest conceptual relative and contrast point.
- Rclone is part of Dud's remote-cache story because Dud uses it for fetch and push operations.
- Make is a related mental model for Dud stages and pipeline commands.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud>
- <https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/>
- <https://kevin-hanselman.github.io/dud/getting_started/>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/kevin-hanselman/dud/releases?per_page=100>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dud>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Other Package-Manager Records

- MacPorts - dud: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/dud/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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