install

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macOS

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brew install git-quick-stats

provider-native install command

overview

Package summary

Simple and efficient way to access statistics in git

Project links

Commands and aliases

git-quick-stats

history

Project history and usage

git-quick-stats is a Bash-based Git statistics tool that turns commit history into interactive and scripted reports about contributors, branches, commit timing, changelogs, and reviewer suggestions.

Project history

The repository began in January 2017 and published its 1.0.0 tag later that month. The project organized around a single command that can run as git-quick-stats or git quick-stats, giving users an interactive menu as well as non-interactive options.

Over time the project added package-manager installation paths, Docker support, JSON and CSV output modes, time-window filters, pathspec filtering, author filtering, heatmaps, timezone breakdowns, and platform notes for GNU date on macOS and FreeBSD.

Adoption history

git-quick-stats has broader package coverage than many small Git helpers: the input records Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Nix, and Scoop packaging. The README also documents apt installation for Debian Bullseye or Ubuntu Focal and later, Homebrew installation on macOS, Windows use through Cygwin or WSL, and Docker use.

The project sits in the long-lived command-line reporting niche around git log, providing a friendlier front end for data that Git can expose but that is tedious to assemble by hand.

How it is used

Practitioners run it inside a Git repository to open the interactive menu or pass flags for reports such as detailed stats, branch stats, contributors, commits per author, commits by day, commits by hour, branches by date, changelogs, and new contributors since a date or tag.

Environment variables let users shape reports without separate config files: _GIT_SINCE and _GIT_UNTIL bound the log range, _GIT_PATHSPEC excludes paths, _GIT_IGNORE_AUTHORS filters people, and _GIT_MERGE_VIEW changes merge handling.

Why package nerds care

For package-index users, git-quick-stats is a classic portable shell utility: small dependency surface, installation through many OS package managers, and behavior built on standard command-line tools such as git, awk, grep, sort, and coreutils.

Timeline

2017: Repository initialized.
2017: 1.0.0 tag published.
2024: 2.x series developed after years of 1.x releases.
2026: 2.11.0 tag published.

Related projects

git itself provides the raw log data consumed by git-quick-stats.
GNU coreutils supplies GNU date, which the README calls out as a requirement on macOS and FreeBSD.

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.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`git-quick-stats`	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 version2.11.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:git-quick-stats
Version	2.11.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://git-quick-stats.sh/
Repository	https://github.com/git-quick-stats/git-quick-stats
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

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.

combined/git-quick-stats.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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