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macOS

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brew install git-remote-codecommit

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overview

Package summary

Git Remote Helper to interact with AWS CodeCommit

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

git-remote-codecommit

history

Project history and usage

git-remote-codecommit is Amazon Web Services' Git remote helper for AWS CodeCommit, adding codecommit:// URL handling so Git can push to and pull from CodeCommit repositories through AWS credential profiles.

Project history

The repository began in March 2018 with AWS template files and README setup instructions. Tagged releases began with 1.0 in January 2020, and the package metadata identifies Amazon Web Services as the author with an Apache-2.0 license and a Python console entry point named git-remote-codecommit.

The README and AWS User Guide position the helper as a way to avoid separate Git credential setup, especially for federated access, temporary credentials, root-account access, IAM Identity Center, and IAM users configured through the AWS CLI.

Adoption history

The helper matters because CodeCommit used AWS IAM rather than the username/password or SSH-key flows common on public Git forges. Official AWS documentation recommends git-remote-codecommit for federated, identity-provider, and temporary-credential workflows, while package-manager metadata shows Homebrew and Nix distribution beyond pip.

How it is used

Practitioners configure AWS CLI profiles in ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials, install the Python package, then clone repositories with URLs such as codecommit://profile@RepositoryName or codecommit::region://profile@RepositoryName. Git invokes the remote helper through its remote-helper mechanism when it sees that URL scheme.

The tool is used in developer workstations, CI jobs, and temporary-credential environments where CodeCommit access needs to follow AWS IAM role or profile resolution rather than static Git credentials.

Why package nerds care

git-remote-codecommit is a vendor-maintained example of Git's remote-helper extension model packaged as a Python console script and redistributed by OS package managers. It bridges Git's transport abstraction with AWS's credential chain, making it significant to users who care about package-managed integrations between generic developer tools and cloud identity systems.

Timeline

2018: Repository initialized by AWS.
2020: 1.0 tag published.
2020: 1.15.1 tag published after early 1.x releases.
2021: 1.16 tag published.
2023: 1.17 tag published.

Related projects

AWS CodeCommit is the hosted Git service the helper connects to.
AWS CLI and botocore provide credential and region resolution for the helper.
Git's remote-helper protocol is the extension point that makes the codecommit:// URL scheme work.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for git-remote-codecommit. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

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: ~/.aws/config

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.aws/credentials

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`git-remote-codecommit`	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 version1.17

manager updated2026-05-13

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:git-remote-codecommit
Version	1.17
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://github.com/aws/git-remote-codecommit
Repository	https://github.com/aws/git-remote-codecommit
Last updated	2026-05-13T10:41:53Z
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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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-remote-codecommit.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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