macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install git-serieslocal Homebrew formula metadata
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Install git-series with Homebrew, Nix
Track changes to a patch series over time. Version 0.9.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#git-series.
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Linux
Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-seriesnixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gi/git-series/package.nix · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
Track changes to a patch series over time
Project links
Commands and aliases
- git-series
history
Project history and usage
git-series is a Git extension for recording the evolution of a patch series, including cover letters, rebases, interdiffs, formatted email output, and pull-request preparation.
Project history
The project appeared in 2016 as a Rust-based answer to a long-standing problem in patch-review workflows: Git stores commits well, but a rebased patch series normally loses its review history outside of branch names, reflogs, or external patch queues. The README frames git-series around the path from an initial idea through repeated RFC and PATCH revisions, where maintainers need to see what changed between versions of the series.
Its design keeps the patch-series metadata in the same Git repository and relies on ordinary Git transport, so a series can be pushed and pulled alongside branches and tags. The tool predates Git's built-in range-diff command and its README explicitly compares its series-diff format with range-diff style output.
Adoption history
Adoption is specialized rather than broad: the tool mainly fits email-driven review cultures, distribution packaging, backports, and teams that repeatedly rebase non-fast-forward patch queues. Its presence in Homebrew and Nix gives it package-manager reach beyond Cargo users, but its audience is narrower than general-purpose Git porcelain.
How it is used
Practitioners start a named series, set a base commit, edit ordinary Git commits, record semantic series checkpoints, maintain a cover letter, compare versions with series diffs, and format numbered patch sets for email review.
Why package nerds care
git-series is notable because it packages a patch-queue workflow without leaving Git's object model. It sits between quilt-style patch stacks and normal rebasing branches, making it useful to people who care about source-package maintenance, long-lived review series, and reproducible patch submission history.
Timeline
- 2016: First public code and v0.8 tags appeared in the GitHub repository.
- 2016: README documented series commits, cover letters, email formatting, and series diffs.
- 2024: Repository activity included updates after the original 2016 tag series.
Related projects
- The README relates git-series to quilt, distribution patch packages, named Git branches, git format-patch, and Git's range-diff style of comparing rewritten commits.
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-series | 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 version0.9.1
manager updated2026-06-22
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:git-series |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.9.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/git-series/git-series |
| Repository | https://github.com/git-series/git-series |
| Last updated | 2026-06-22T14:03:31-07:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Nix95%
git-series
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-series- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Git Series
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
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation