install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install gickup

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#gickup

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/gi/gickup/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Backup all your repositories with Ease

Project links

Commands and aliases

gickup

history

Project history and usage

gickup is a Go command-line tool for backing up and mirroring Git repositories across hosting providers and local or object-storage targets. Its practical focus is repository survivability across GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo-family hosts, SourceHut, Bitbucket, OneDev, local storage, and S3.

Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in May 2021 by Cooper Spencer. The README describes the tool as a way to clone or mirror repositories from one host to another, useful when users want backups on another host or on a local server.

The project grew around a YAML configuration model and provider-specific source and destination blocks. Its example configuration includes tokens, token files, users, organizations, SSH keys, inclusion and exclusion rules, filters, gists, wikis, issues, starred repositories, and contributed repositories, showing an evolution from simple clone automation toward cross-forge backup orchestration.

Adoption history

gickup serves a community need created by code-host concentration and forge fragmentation: developers, open-source maintainers, and small organizations often want a portable copy of their repositories outside a single vendor account. Its provider list includes both major commercial forges and self-hosted or community forges, making it useful for migration and backup plans.

Packaging through Homebrew, Nix, Arch AUR, Fedora COPR, Docker images, and GitHub releases made the tool easy to schedule on personal servers and CI-like runners.

How it is used

Practitioners write a YAML config describing source accounts and destination targets, then run `gickup path-to-conf.yml` or use the Docker Compose workflow documented in the README. Common jobs mirror all repositories for a user or organization, include or exclude selected names, copy wikis or issues where supported, and back up to local directories or another Git host.

The example configuration shows credentials supplied as tokens, token files, username-password pairs, SSH keys, or GitHub App credentials, with filters for stars, last activity, archive status, forks, and languages.

Why package nerds care

gickup is significant to package-minded users because it turns a brittle personal shell script into a packaged, configurable binary. It is the kind of tool installed on a NAS, VPS, or workstation and run on a schedule to keep repository copies boring and restorable.

Timeline

2021: Public GitHub repository created.
2024: Release series included v0.10.36.
2025: Release series included v0.10.39.
2026: Release series reached v0.10.45.

Related projects

gickup is related to Git, GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo, Gogs, Bitbucket, OneDev, SourceHut, S3-compatible storage, and repository mirroring workflows.

Sources

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for gickup. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`gickup`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version0.10.45

manager updated2026-06-22

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.10.45

https://github.com/cooperspencer/gickup

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:gickup
Version	0.10.45
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gickup
Homepage	https://cooperspencer.github.io/gickup-documentation/
Repository	https://github.com/cooperspencer/gickup
Upstream docs	https://cooperspencer.github.io/gickup-documentation
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/cooperspencer/gickup/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.45.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-22T10:25:58Z
Pulse	updated
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	gickup
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Nix95%

gickup

nix profile install nixpkgs#gickup

normalized package name match
Matched by: Gickup

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package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/gickup.yml

Used sources

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

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