# Install git-sizer with Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget

Compute various size metrics for a Git repository. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install git-sizer.

## Install

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

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-sizer
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install git-sizer
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-sizer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add git-sizer
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-sizer from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install git-sizer
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: git-sizer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

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

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S git-sizer
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: git-sizer from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/git-sizer
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-sizer.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id GitHub.git-sizer -e
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:git-sizer
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Source summary:** Compute various size metrics for a Git repository
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/github/git-sizer>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/github/git-sizer>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T14:57:49+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- git-sizer (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.0
## Project history and usage

git-sizer is a GitHub-authored command-line analyzer that measures repository size and shape, then flags characteristics that make Git operations slow, expensive, or inconvenient.

### Project history

The GitHub repository began in early 2018 and published v1.0.0 in March 2018. The README presents the tool as a practical diagnostic for repositories that have outgrown Git's comfortable operating range, with checks for large object sets, huge blobs, many references, deep histories, giant trees, long paths, and unusual tag or merge structures.

The project evolved as a Go utility that shells out to Git and reports both human-readable tables and machine-readable JSON. Later releases continued to refine the metric set and output behavior while keeping the core purpose stable: make repository bloat visible before it turns into slow clones, fetches, repacks, garbage collection, and history traversal.

### Adoption history

git-sizer has stronger ecosystem reach than most small Git extensions because it comes from the GitHub organization and is packaged across Homebrew, Chocolatey, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, and winget. That spread reflects its role as an operations tool for maintainers, enterprise source-control teams, and migration projects rather than a daily porcelain command for every developer.

### How it is used

Practitioners run git-sizer inside a full, non-shallow clone to get concern-ranked metrics, often using --verbose for a complete inventory or --json for automation. The output points maintainers toward remedies such as removing generated files, moving binary assets to Git LFS or git-annex, pruning excess refs, splitting subprojects, or reshaping directories.

### Why package nerds care

Package maintainers care about git-sizer because source archives, fetch times, build farms, mirrors, and monorepo migrations all suffer when repository topology gets pathological. It gives a repeatable vocabulary for discussing repository health without requiring a custom Git forensics script.

### Timeline

- 2018: GitHub repository and initial implementation appeared.
- 2018: v1.0.0 release published.
- 2021: v1.4.0 and v1.5.0 releases expanded the maintained release line.

### Related projects

- The README points users toward Git LFS and git-annex for large assets and toward Git's own maintenance commands when interpreting the cost of repository size.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-sizer>
- <https://github.com/github/git-sizer>
- <https://github.com/github/git-sizer/blob/master/README.md>
- <https://github.com/github/git-sizer/releases>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - git-sizer - 1.5.0-3+b12: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: git-sizer from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | compute various size metrics for a Git repository | https://github.com/github/git-sizer
- Nix - git-sizer: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-sizer/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - git-sizer - 1.5.0-3build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-sizer from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | compute various size metrics for a Git repository | https://github.com/github/git-sizer
- apk - git-sizer - 1.5.0-r40: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-sizer from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Compute various size metrics for a Git repository | https://github.com/github/git-sizer
- pacman - git-sizer - 1.5.0-3: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: git-sizer from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Compute various size metrics for a Git repository | https://github.com/github/git-sizer
- MacPorts - git-sizer: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-sizer/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - main/git-sizer: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-sizer.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - GitHub.git-sizer: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GitHub.git-sizer from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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