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Install git-bug with Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman, scoop, zypper

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges. Version 0.10.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install git-bug

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Alpine Linux apkverified · 92%
sudo apk add git-bug

Alpine Linux edge package indexes · git-bug · source: dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org

Nixverified · 92%
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-bug

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

Arch Linux pacmanverified · 92%
sudo pacman -S git-bug

Arch Linux sync databases · git-bug · source: geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com

openSUSE zypperverified · 92%
sudo zypper install git-bug

openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · git-bug · source: download.opensuse.org

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%
scoop install main/git-bug

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/git-bug.json · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges

Commands and aliases

  • git-bug

history

Project history and usage

git-bug is a decentralized issue tracker that stores issues, comments, identities, and related metadata as Git objects inside a repository. Its project framing follows a long-running Git culture idea: project state should be portable with the repository rather than locked inside a single hosted forge.

Project history

The project was initially built by Michael Mure and later organized under the git-bug project on GitHub. Public release history shows a 0.2.0 release in 2018, several 0.x releases through 2020 and 2022, and renewed 0.8 to 0.10 releases in 2025, indicating a tool that evolved from a distributed issue-storage experiment into a CLI, TUI, and web-interface workflow.

Adoption history

Adoption has centered on developers who want issue data to travel with a Git repository and who need offline access. The project documents bridges for GitHub, GitLab, Jira, and Launchpad, making it useful as a local archive and synchronization layer rather than only as a replacement issue tracker.

How it is used

Practitioners use git-bug inside an existing repository to create, query, edit, and synchronize issues. Bridge users configure a third-party service, pull issues into the repository-backed store, work on them offline through the CLI, TUI, or web UI, then push changes back to the forge.

Why package nerds care

For package users, git-bug is interesting because it treats issue tracking as a Git-native data problem. It fits the same offline-first, clone-and-sync model that made distributed version control attractive, while still acknowledging hosted issue trackers through bridge support.

Timeline

  • 2018: 0.2.0 release documented in the changelog.
  • 2020: 0.7.x releases continued the early 0.x line.
  • 2025: 0.8.1, 0.9.0, and 0.10.x releases documented renewed CLI and web UI work.

Related projects

  • git-bug relates to hosted issue trackers such as GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Jira, and Launchpad through its bridge system.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

  • narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

  • metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 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

CommandKindExposureNote
git-bugcliglobal 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 version0.10.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv0.10.1

https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug

  • infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:git-bug
Version0.10.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-bug
Homepagehttps://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Repositoryhttps://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Upstream docshttps://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/tree/trunk/doc
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/archive/refs/tags/v0.10.1.tar.gz
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegit-bug
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
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%

git-bug

nix profile install nixpkgs#git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-bug/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
apk95%

git-bug 0.8.1-r11

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo apk add git-bug
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-bug from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

git-bug-bash-completion 0.8.1-r11

Bash completions for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo apk add git-bug-bash-completion
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-bug-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

git-bug-doc 0.8.1-r11

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges (documentation)

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo apk add git-bug-doc
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-bug-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

git-bug-fish-completion 0.8.1-r11

Fish completions for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo apk add git-bug-fish-completion
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-bug-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
apk95%

git-bug-zsh-completion 0.8.1-r11

Zsh completions for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo apk add git-bug-zsh-completion
  • License: GPL-3.0-or-later
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Alpine Linux edge package indexes · dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org · Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-bug-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
pacman95%

git-bug 0.10.1-2

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo pacman -S git-bug
  • License: GPL-3.0-only
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • 2 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Arch Linux sync databases · geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com · Arch Linux sync databases: git-bug from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz
zypper95%

git-bug 0.10.1-5.1

Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in git, with bridges

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo zypper install git-bug
  • License: MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: x86_64
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • 1 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-bug from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

git-bug-bash-completion 0.10.1-5.1

Bash completion for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo zypper install git-bug-bash-completion
  • License: MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-bug-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

git-bug-fish-completion 0.10.1-5.1

Fish completion for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo zypper install git-bug-fish-completion
  • License: MIT
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • 2 dependencies
  • 1 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-bug-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
zypper95%

git-bug-zsh-completion 0.10.1-5.1

ZSH completion for git-bug

https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

sudo zypper install git-bug-zsh-completion
  • License: MIT
  • Category: Productivity/File utilities
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: git-bug
  • 2 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · download.opensuse.org · openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-bug-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst
Scoop95%

main/git-bug

scoop install main/git-bug
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Git Bug
Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-bug.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

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

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • git-appraisePackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, distributed.
  • git-archive-allPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git.
  • git-big-picturePackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git.

Same workflow

  • fossilShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, distributed, issue-tracking, version-control.
  • aicommitShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • aicommit2Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • aicommitsShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • braidShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • cigShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.

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.

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