macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install git-xargslocal Homebrew formula metadata
brew / rank 7201
Install git-xargs with Homebrew, scoop
CLI for making updates across multiple Github repositories with a single command. Version 0.1.16 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with scoop: scoop install main/git-xargs.
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Windows
Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/git-xargsScoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/git-xargs.json · source: api.github.com
overview
Package summary
CLI for making updates across multiple Github repositories with a single command
Project links
Commands and aliases
- git-xargs
history
Project history and usage
git-xargs is a Gruntwork command-line tool for applying one command or script across many GitHub repositories. Its niche is organizational repository maintenance: cloning targets, running an operation, committing changes, opening pull requests, and reporting the outcome.
Project history
The project appeared as a Go CLI in Gruntwork's open source tooling around 2021, with tagged releases beginning at v0.0.1 on April 20, 2021. Its README frames the tool around repeated multi-repository jobs such as adding files, renaming products, upgrading Terraform modules, or adding CI configuration across many repositories.
Adoption history
Adoption is concentrated in teams that manage many GitHub repositories, especially infrastructure and platform groups. Package availability through Homebrew and Scoop made it easier to treat the tool as a workstation utility rather than a one-off script copied between organizations.
How it is used
Practitioners provide a command or script plus repository selectors, often an organization or a file of repositories. git-xargs then performs the repetitive GitHub workflow around that command: clone, change, commit, pull request, and summarize.
Why package nerds care
For package-manager users, git-xargs represents the small but valuable class of CLIs that automate repository hygiene at fleet scale. It is less a Git replacement than a GitHub operations multiplier.
Timeline
- 2021: First tagged releases of git-xargs.
- 2021: README examples described organization-wide pull-request generation.
- 2021: Homebrew installation documented alongside release binaries and Go installation.
Related projects
- Git provides the underlying repository operations.
- GitHub provides the repository hosting and pull-request workflow that git-xargs automates.
- Gruntwork maintains the project as part of its infrastructure-tooling ecosystem.
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-xargs | 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 version0.1.16
manager updated2026-07-27
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:git-xargs |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.16 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs |
| Repository | https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs |
| Last updated | 2026-07-27T16:47:23+02:00 |
| 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.
Scoop95%
main/git-xargs
scoop install main/git-xargs- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Git Xargs
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