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git-hound mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für git-hound in AI-Agent-Workflows.

Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install git-hound

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverifiziert · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-hound

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gi/git-hound/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

Git plugin that prevents sensitive data from being committed

Befehle und Aliase

  • git-hound

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

git-hound is a Git plugin for preventing sensitive data from entering commits. It checks staged diffs against user-provided PCRE regular expressions before commit operations proceed.

Projektgeschichte

The repository was created in November 2015 as a Go command-line plugin. Its README presents Hound as a small Git extension with precompiled release binaries, Go installation, and Homebrew installation paths.

Adoptionsgeschichte

git-hound fits the mid-2010s rise of local secret-scanning tools, when teams began adding pre-commit checks for passwords, database settings, tokens, and machine-specific paths. Its adoption stayed niche compared with larger scanners, but the repository attracted several hundred stars and was packaged for Homebrew and Nix.

Wie es verwendet wird

Practitioners run `git hound commit` to sniff staged changes before invoking `git commit`, or `git hound sniff` to scan a commit, a manual diff, a whole codebase, or repository history. The `.githound.yml` file separates warning patterns, failure patterns, and skipped filenames.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The package is interesting because it exposes Git's plugin naming convention: installing `git-hound` makes `git hound` available. It is also a compact example of pre-commit security tooling before secret scanning became a standard hosted-platform feature.

Zeitleiste

  • 2015: GitHub repository created for the Go implementation.
  • 2016: Several 0.5.x releases publish packaged binaries.
  • 2017: 0.6.x releases continue the pre-1.0 line.
  • 2020: 1.0.0 release published.

Related projects

  • git-hound is related to Git hooks, pre-commit frameworks, and secret scanners such as git-secrets and truffleHog, all of which try to catch sensitive strings before or after they enter Git history.

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

  • In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
  • Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 13 Plattformziele verfügbar.
  • Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

local files

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

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
.githound.yml

Executables

Installierte Executables

BefehlArtSichtbarkeitHinweis
git-houndcliglobales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25
Manager-Version1.0.0
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-23
lokale DatenOK
Upstreamaktuell
neueste erkannte Version1.0.0

https://github.com/ezekg/git-hound

  • OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüsselbrew:git-hound
Version1.0.0
PaketmanagerHomebrew
Paketmanager-Seitehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-hound
Homepagehttps://github.com/ezekg/git-hound
Repositoryhttps://github.com/ezekg/git-hound
Upstream-Dokumentationhttps://github.com/ezekg/git-hound#readme
LizenzMIT
Quellarchivhttps://github.com/ezekg/git-hound/archive/refs/tags/1.0.0.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert2026-07-23T00:40:47-04:00
Pulseupdated
Build-Abhängigkeitengo
Bottleverfügbar (auf arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnicht definiert
Dienstkeiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegit-hound
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

git-hound

nix profile install nixpkgs#git-hound
  • normalized package name match
  • Abgeglichen nach: Git Hound
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-hound/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Verwendete Quellen

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment