# Install gickup with Homebrew, Nix Backup all your repositories with Ease. Version 0.10.45 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:gickup ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install gickup ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#gickup ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/gickup/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:gickup - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.10.45 - **Source summary:** Backup all your repositories with Ease - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T10:25:58Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - gickup (cli) - gickup (alias) ## Build dependencies - go ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 0.10.45 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/cooperspencer/gickup - Upstream latest detected: v0.10.45 (current) ## 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 Notes 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. ## 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:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - gickup: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/gickup/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## 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. - [Archive and compression packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/archive-compression-tools/) - Matched archive or compression metadata. - [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [ghorg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ghorg/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: backup, cli, developer-tools, git, source-control. - [gitbackup](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gitbackup/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: backup, cli, developer-tools, git. - [ghq](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ghq/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, source-control. - [hut](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hut/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, source-control. - [scm-manager](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/scm-manager/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, source-control. - [scmpuff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/scmpuff/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, source-control. - [zpaqfranz](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/zpaqfranz/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: backup, cli, developer-tools. - [cig](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/cig/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, repositories. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/gickup.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/gickup.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 - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph