# Install multi-git-status with Homebrew, dnf, apt, Nix

Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos. Version 2.3 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with dnf: sudo dnf install multi-git-status.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:multi-git-status
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install multi-git-status
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install multi-git-status
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install mgitstatus
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mgitstatus
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:multi-git-status
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.3
- **Source summary:** Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mgitstatus (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.3
## Project history and usage

multi-git-status installs the `mgitstatus` command, a small utility by fboender for checking many Git working trees at once. The public GitHub repository was created in 2016 and describes the command as a way to show uncommitted, untracked, and unpushed changes across multiple repositories.

### Project history

The tool fills a common maintainer workflow: scan a directory tree for `.git` directories, then print concise status lines for repositories that need attention. Its README documents checks for uncommitted changes, untracked files, branches that need push or pull, branches without upstreams, and stashes, with options for recursion depth, fetching, throttling fetches, flattened output, color, and filtering clean repositories.

### How it is used

Package-manager metadata exposes it as `multi-git-status` in Homebrew while Debian and Ubuntu package the executable-oriented name `mgitstatus`. Its niche is deliberately narrower than repository orchestration tools: it is a quick status dashboard for people who keep many local clones.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/fboender/multi-git-status>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/multi-git-status>
- <https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status>
- <https://www.mankier.com/1/mgitstatus>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- dnf - multi-git-status - 2.3-5.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: multi-git-status from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Show uncommitted, untracked and unpushed changes for multiple Git repos | https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status
- Debian apt - mgitstatus - 2.3+dfsg-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: mgitstatus from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Show status of multiple Git repositories | https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status
- Nix - mgitstatus: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mg/mgitstatus/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - mgitstatus - 2.2+dfsg-2: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: mgitstatus from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Show status of multiple Git repositories | https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status


## Combined YAML source

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