# Install bit-git with Homebrew Bit is a modern Git CLI. Version 1.1.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-23. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:bit-git ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install bit-git ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:bit-git - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.1.2 - **Source summary:** Bit is a modern Git CLI - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-07-23T00:30:41-04:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-25T07:20:51+00:00 ## Executables - bit-git (cli) - bit-git (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-25 - Package-manager version: 1.1.2 - Package-manager updated: 2026-07-23 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/chriswalz/bit - Upstream latest detected: v1.1.2 (current) ## Project history and usage bit-git is the Homebrew-packaged form of Chris Walz's Bit, an experimental modern Git CLI written in Go. It wraps Git with suggestions, autocomplete, safer defaults, and convenience commands while preserving compatibility with ordinary Git commands. ### Project history The official repository was created in 2020 and describes Bit as a modernized Git CLI built on top of Git. Its README presents it as an experiment in happy defaults: command and flag suggestions, branch and file autocomplete, automatic fetch and fast-forwarding, and commands inspired by git-extras. The project reached a 1.x release line in 2021. Its README changelog shows a rapid early sequence of usability features, including single-binary distribution, GitHub pull-request viewing through the GitHub CLI, interactive prompt mode, and a security fix for a Windows executable-search issue. ### Adoption history The README documents installation through Homebrew as `brew install bit-git`, MacPorts, Go, Chocolatey, zinit, and other routes. The Homebrew formula name avoids colliding with the unrelated Bit component manager package. The repository's linked news items show a 2020 developer-tooling splash across Hacker News, Go newsletters, Reddit, and other programming communities, but the project remained a focused Git porcelain rather than becoming a replacement for Git itself. ### How it is used Users call `bit` where they would normally call `git`, with commands such as `bit save`, `bit sync`, `bit switch`, and `bit pr` layered over existing Git behavior. The README emphasizes that all Git commands remain available through Bit. The package is useful for interactive terminal workflows where suggestions, branch autocomplete, and happy-path commands are more valuable than strict minimalism. ### Why package nerds care bit-git is notable mostly because of naming pressure in package ecosystems: Homebrew has both `bit-git` for this Git helper and `bit` for Teambit's component manager. The formula name is itself a packaging artifact. It also captures a wave of post-2010s Git porcelain experiments: small CLIs that wrap Git without replacing its storage model, trying to make common workflows friendlier while leaving the underlying tool intact. ### Timeline - 2020: The chriswalz/bit repository is created and publicized as an experimental modern Git CLI. - 2020: Homebrew installation appears in the README as `brew install bit-git`. - 2021: The project publishes 1.0 and 1.1 releases with more completions, interactive mode, and security fixes. - 2023: The repository remains available, with later activity tapering compared with the initial release burst. ### Related projects - Git is the underlying version-control system that bit-git wraps. - git-extras is named by the README as an inspiration and source of related convenience commands. - Gitless is another Git workflow experiment credited by the README. - go-prompt is credited by the README for the interactive prompt library. ### Sources - - - - - input.json source_facts.package-manager ## Security Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** bit-git - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Conflicts With:** bit - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Related links - [Source-control packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/source-control-tools/) - Belongs to a source-control command family. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [all-repos](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/all-repos/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [braid](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/braid/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [codeberg-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/codeberg-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [commitizen](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/commitizen/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [commitlint](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/commitlint/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [committed](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/committed/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [czg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/czg/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [diff-so-fancy](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/diff-so-fancy/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [koji](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/koji/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. - [conventional-commits-detector](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/conventional-commits-detector/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/bit-git.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/bit-git.yml) ## Sources - Nucleus package database - Geiger risk classifier - package-page enrichment - curated package history - package version freshness - av.db category and tag curation - package relationship graph - cross-ecosystem install command graph