# 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.

## Install

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

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-xargs
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

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

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:git-xargs
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.1.16
- **Source summary:** CLI for making updates across multiple Github repositories with a single command
- **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
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- git-xargs (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.1.16
## 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

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-xargs>
- <https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs>
- <https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs/releases>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Scoop - main/git-xargs: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-xargs.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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