# Install sugarjar with Homebrew, apt, dnf

Helper utility for a better Git/GitHub experience. Version 3.0.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install sugarjar.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:sugarjar
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sugarjar
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install sugarjar
```

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

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install sugarjar
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:sugarjar
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 3.0.1
- **Source summary:** Helper utility for a better Git/GitHub experience
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T18:44:54Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- sj (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 3.0.1
## Project history and usage

SugarJar is a Ruby command-line helper for Git plus GitHub and GitLab workflows, installed as `sj`. It belongs to the tradition of developer workflow wrappers that package managers carry because they encode a maintainer's preferred Git hygiene into a reproducible CLI.

### Project history

The official README says SugarJar is inspired by Arcanist and Facebook's JellyFish, bringing features from Phabricator-style workflows to GitHub. Its focus is practical repository work: smarter clones, branch cleanup, stacked branches, smart pull requests, pre-push checks, and safer force-push behavior.

The official changelog records a 1.0.0 release in October 2023, later 2.x releases that removed `hub` support and required Ruby 3.2, and 3.x releases adding GitLab use cases.

### Adoption history

The Homebrew input records SugarJar in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu package sets. That is modest but meaningful adoption for a personal workflow tool: it has escaped a single checkout and become something downstream packagers can build and ship.

### How it is used

SugarJar's README documents commands such as `sj smartclone`, `sj bclean`, `sj smartlog`, `sj smartpush`, and `sj fpush`. It wraps common Git and forge operations while relying on standard tools such as Ruby, `git`, `gh`, or `glab`.

### Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about SugarJar because it shows a common packaging pattern: a small opinionated wrapper around ubiquitous tools. Its value is not replacing Git, but standardizing repeated contributor tasks enough that users want it installed from the same package manager as Git itself.

### Timeline

- 2020: Changelog entries show early 0.0.x development with smart pull-request and branch-cleanup features.
- 2023: Version 1.0.0 adds feature-prefix support and defaults to the GitHub CLI.
- 2024: Version 1.1.1 relaxes Ruby requirements for easier packaging.
- 2025: Version 2.x removes `hub` support and requires Ruby 3.2 or later.
- 2026: Version 3.x adds GitLab support.

### Related projects

- The README names Arcanist and JellyFish as inspirations, and documents `gh` and `glab` as forge CLI dependencies.

### Sources

- Input package-manager data: source_facts.package-manager
- Official README: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar#readme
- Official changelog: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- Official releases: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/releases


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - sugarjar - 2.0.1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sugarjar from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Git/GitHub helper script | https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar
- Ubuntu apt - sugarjar - 1.1.1-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sugarjar from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Git/GitHub helper script | https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar
- dnf - sugarjar - 3.0.1-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sugarjar from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | A git/github helper utility | http://www.github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar


## Combined YAML source

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