# Install gerrit-tools with Homebrew

Tools to ease Gerrit code review. Version 1.0.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:gerrit-tools
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install gerrit-tools
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:gerrit-tools
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gerrit-tools>
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Source summary:** Tools to ease Gerrit code review
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools#readme>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools/archive/refs/tags/v1.0.0.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- gerrit-setup (cli)
- gerrit-setup (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.0.0
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools
- Upstream latest detected: v1.0.0 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

gerrit-tools is a small collection of command-line scripts for developers working with Gerrit Code Review. Its scope is narrow: help developers set up a Gerrit remote, fetch changes for review, push changes, approve changes, and reset their review workflow.

### Project history

The GitHub repository was opened in 2010 and its README presents the project as scripts that make Gerrit-based code review easier. The scripts reflect early Gerrit workflows, including a cherry-pick helper, a setup helper for repositories cloned from GitHub, and a `git review` wrapper.

### Adoption history

The project appears to have served a small Gerrit-using developer audience rather than a broad tool ecosystem. Its value was in codifying a workflow around Gerrit changesets at a time when teams often carried local helper scripts for review operations.

### How it is used

Practitioners use `gerrit-setup` to convert a GitHub-origin clone to use Gerrit as the origin, and `git review` to push a changeset, review another changeset by number, approve after tests, or reset local review state. The README also suggests aliasing the review command for faster use.

### Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, gerrit-tools is interesting as a tiny workflow package: it wraps project-specific Gerrit muscle memory into installable scripts, useful for developers who still encounter older Gerrit review flows.

### Timeline

- 2010: The gerrit-tools repository was opened on GitHub.
- 2010s: The README documents scripts for Gerrit cherry-picking, remote setup, review, approval, and reset workflows.

### Related projects

- Gerrit Code Review, Git

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/indirect/gerrit-tools>
- <https://github.com/indirect/gerrit-tools>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/indirect/gerrit-tools/master/README.md>


## 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:** gerrit-tools
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Conflicts With:** git-gerrit, git-review
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


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- [git-codereview](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-codereview/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, code-review, developer-tools, gerrit, git.
- [git-gerrit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-gerrit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, code-review, developer-tools, gerrit, git.
- [git-review](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-review/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, code-review, developer-tools, gerrit, git.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gerrit-tools.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gerrit-tools.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
