# Install microplane with Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, dnf, zypper

CLI tool to make git changes across many repos. Version 0.0.37 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#microplane.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:microplane
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install microplane
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install microplane
```

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

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#microplane
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install mp
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mp from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install mp
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mp from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:microplane
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.0.37
- **Source summary:** CLI tool to make git changes across many repos
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/Clever/microplane>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Clever/microplane>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T17:04:54+02:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mp (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.0.37
## Project history and usage

microplane is Clever's command-line tool for making coordinated Git changes across many repositories. It grew out of Clever's microservice-heavy engineering environment: a 2017 Clever Engineering post described more than 500 repositories and a Go 1.8 to 1.9 migration that touched nearly 200 of them. Nathan Leiby and Rafael Garcia designed microplane during a hackathon to make those broad edits less manual while preserving the pull-request workflow.

### Project history

The tool's model is intentionally opinionated. Its README documents a five-step flow: initialize a target set of repositories, clone them, run a script and preview diffs, push commits and open pull requests, then merge the resulting PRs. It supports GitHub and GitLab workflows and exposes the `mp` executable through package managers such as Homebrew.

### How it is used

Its package-manager niche is multi-repository maintenance, especially for organizations that chose many service repositories instead of a monorepo. Related tools named by the upstream project include Skyscanner's Turbolift and Octoherd; all solve variations of the same problem of safely applying repetitive changes across repository fleets.

### Sources

- <https://engineering.clever.com/2017/12/11/mo-repos-mo-problems-how-we-make-changes-across-many-git-repositories/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/microplane>
- <https://github.com/Clever/microplane>
- <https://github.com/Clever/microplane/blob/master/docs/mp.md>
- <https://www.jvt.me/posts/2023/01/21/bulk-git-repo-changes/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - microplane: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/microplane/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - microplane: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/microplane/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - mp - 20260210-2.20260210gitd661482.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mp from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | An open-source library for mathematical programming | https://mp.ampl.com/
- dnf - mp-devel - 20260210-2.20260210gitd661482.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: mp-devel from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Development files for mp | https://mp.ampl.com/
- zypper - mp - 5.62-2.6: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mp from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A text editor for programmers | https://triptico.com/software/mp.html
- zypper - mp-gtk3 - 5.62-2.6: installed executable or alias match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: mp-gtk3 from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | A text editor for programmers (GTK+3 version) | https://triptico.com/software/mp.html


## Combined YAML source

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