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Grow and cultivate collections of Git trees. Version 2.6.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-12.
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overview
Package summary
Grow and cultivate collections of Git trees
Project links
Commands and aliases
- garden
- garden-gui
history
Project history and usage
Garden is a Rust command runner and multi-repository Git configuration tool for managing collections of Git worktrees.
Project history
Garden's official GitHub mirror was created in June 2021, while the README identifies GitLab as the canonical project home. The project describes itself as stable and feature-complete for its core functionality.
The tool grew around YAML configuration and familiar shell syntax, with both a garden CLI and a garden-gui interface available from the same project.
Adoption history
Garden has been packaged for developers through cargo install, GitHub release binaries, Homebrew, Fedora, and related package collections. Its own README links both current package-manager entries and a legacy Homebrew tap for older versions.
How it is used
Garden is used to bootstrap Git-based multi-repository development environments, apply git config and remotes to worktrees, grow new worktrees, and run commands across repository collections. Its configuration discovery searches project, user, and global garden.yaml paths.
Why package nerds care
Garden is interesting to package-oriented developers because it treats a fleet of Git repositories as a configured workspace while staying close to standard Unix shells and Git behavior. It competes with heavier repo-management systems by being a small Rust CLI with explicit config search paths and static Linux binaries.
Timeline
- 2021: Official GitHub mirror created.
- 2024: v1.5.0 and later 1.x releases published on GitHub.
- 2025: v2.0.0 released.
- 2026: v2.6.0 released.
Related projects
- Garden is related to Git worktrees, command runners such as make, Garden GUI, the garden-tools Rust crate, and Garden seeds, a companion repository of reusable Garden templates.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
./garden.yaml./garden/garden.yaml./etc/garden/garden.yaml~/.config/garden/garden.yaml~/etc/garden/garden.yaml/etc/garden/garden.yaml
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
garden | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
garden-gui | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version2.6.1
manager updated2026-07-12
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:garden |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.6.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://garden-rs.gitlab.io |
| Repository | https://github.com/garden-rs/garden |
| Last updated | 2026-07-12T12:00:08Z |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation