# Install gitmux with Homebrew, Nix

Git status in tmux status bar. Version 0.11.5 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-27. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#gitmux.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gitmux
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gitmux
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#gitmux
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gitmux
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.11.5
- **Source summary:** Git status in tmux status bar
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/arl/gitmux>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/arl/gitmux>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-27T14:57:49+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- gitmux (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.11.5
## Project history and usage

gitmux is a small Go command-line tool that renders Git working-tree state for the tmux status bar. Its role is deliberately narrow: it turns branch, divergence, staged, modified, untracked, stash, and cleanliness information into tmux format strings.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was created in October 2019, and an early v0.2.0 release was published the same day. The README presents gitmux as an install-and-forget tmux companion with shell-agnostic behavior and a YAML configuration file for colors, symbols, and layout.

### Adoption history

gitmux spread through terminal-tooling channels rather than through a large framework ecosystem. Its README documents binary releases, Homebrew installation for macOS and Linux, Arch User Repository packages, and Go source installation, which matches its position as a practical status-line utility.

### How it is used

Practitioners add a `gitmux` invocation to `status-right` in `.tmux.conf`, usually passing tmux's pane path so the status bar follows the active working directory. Users generate a default YAML file with `gitmux -printcfg`, save it as `~/.gitmux.conf`, and pass it with `-cfg` when they want customized symbols or colors.

### Why package nerds care

For package maintainers, gitmux is a typical compact CLI package: a single executable, no service integration, and behavior that can be verified by running it inside a Git checkout. It matters mainly to users who keep Git context visible inside long-running tmux sessions.

### Timeline

- 2019: Repository created on GitHub.
- 2019: v0.2.0 release published.
- 2020s: README-documented install paths include Homebrew, AUR, binary releases, and Go source installation.

### Related projects

- tmux provides the status bar integration point, while Git supplies the repository state that gitmux summarizes.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/arl/gitmux>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/arl/gitmux/releases>
- <https://github.com/arl/gitmux>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arl/gitmux/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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


## 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

- Unix: ~/.gitmux.conf
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - gitmux: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/gitmux/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

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