# Install git-get with Homebrew, Nix, winget

Better way to clone, organize and manage multiple git repositories. Version 0.6.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#git-get.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:git-get
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-get
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-get
```

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

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id grdl.git-get -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: grdl.git-get from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:git-get
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.6.1
- **Source summary:** Better way to clone, organize and manage multiple git repositories
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/grdl/git-get>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/grdl/git-get>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T16:47:23+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- git-list (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.6.1
## Project history and usage

git-get is a Go command-line tool for cloning and organizing Git repositories into a predictable directory tree derived from repository URLs. It provides `git get` for cloning and `git list` for scanning repository status.

### Project history

The project started in 2020 and frames itself as a repository-organization tool inspired by the predictability of Go's `go get` path layout. Its README describes a single binary that behaves as `git-get` or `git-list` depending on invocation, with repository URL parsing, batch clone dumps, multi-platform releases, and configuration through flags, environment variables, or Git config.

### Adoption history

git-get addresses a common developer workstation habit: keeping many clones under a host-and-path directory tree rather than scattered project folders. Homebrew, Nix, and Windows package metadata indicate packaging across several developer environments, though its adoption remains focused on users who manage many repositories locally.

### How it is used

Practitioners run `git get github.com/owner/repo` to clone into a root such as `~/repositories/github.com/owner/repo`, then use `git list` to show repository status. Dump files let users recreate a local source tree from a list, which makes the tool useful for dotfiles-driven workstation setup.

### Why package nerds care

git-get is package-manager interesting because it turns a personal source-tree convention into a portable Git extension. It overlaps with older `~/src/host/user/repo` habits while adding packageable binaries, symlinks, and cross-platform release artifacts.

### Timeline

- 2020: Repository created on GitHub.
- 2020: v0.1.0 release began the tagged release line.
- 2021: v0.5.0 release continued the early Go implementation.
- 2025: v0.6.x releases refreshed packaging and release artifacts.

### Related projects

- git-get relates to Go's source path conventions, Git subcommand wrappers, `gh repo clone`, and source-tree organizers such as git-grab.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-get>
- <https://github.com/grdl/git-get>
- <https://github.com/grdl/git-get/blob/main/README.md>
- <https://github.com/grdl/git-get/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## 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

- Unix: ~/.gitconfig
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - git-get: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-get/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - grdl.git-get: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: grdl.git-get from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph