# Install gistit with Homebrew

Command-line utility for creating Gists. Version 0.1.4 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gistit
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gistit
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gistit
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.4
- **Source summary:** Command-line utility for creating Gists
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jrbasso/gistit>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jrbasso/gistit>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gistit (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.4
## Project history and usage

gistit is a small C command-line utility for creating GitHub Gists from standard input or files. It overlaps with other gist uploaders but emphasizes a compiled CLI with libcurl and jansson dependencies.

### Project history

The repository history begins in June 2012 with an initial implementation, followed by small releases through the 0.1.x series. The README describes a console app that can create gists from piped input, a single file, or multiple files, with flags for private gists, file names, descriptions, help, and version output.

### Adoption history

gistit appears to have remained a niche uploader. Its README documents build dependencies and Homebrew installation, but the available project materials do not show the broad packaging or maintainer ecosystem seen around the older Ruby gist client.

### How it is used

Practitioners use gistit in pipeline form, such as sending command output to a new gist, or by passing one or more file names. The README also documents anonymous gist creation by default and an account-association flow through the companion web application.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, gistit is mainly interesting as a minimal C implementation of a GitHub Gist uploader: it has few dependencies, an autotools-style build, and a command surface small enough to package without a language runtime.

### Timeline

- 2012: Initial repository history and v0.1 release.
- 2013: v0.1.1 and v0.1.2 followed with small updates.
- 2015: v0.1.3 was tagged.
- 2021: v0.1.4 was tagged.

### Related projects

- gistit is related to GitHub Gist, the Ruby gist client, libcurl, jansson, and its small companion web application.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gistit>
- <https://github.com/jrbasso/gistit>
- <https://github.com/jrbasso/gistit/blob/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph