# Install git-extras with Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper

Small git utilities. Version 7.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-10.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:git-extras
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-extras
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install git-extras
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-extras/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add git-extras
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-extras from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install git-extras
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: git-extras from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install git-extras
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: git-extras from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#git-extras
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-extras/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S git-delta
```

  Evidence: Arch Linux sync databases: git-delta from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install git-delta
```

  Evidence: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: git-delta from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:git-extras
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-extras>
- **Version:** 7.5.0
- **Source summary:** Small git utilities
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tj/git-extras>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tj/git-extras>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/tj/git-extras#readme>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/tj/git-extras/archive/refs/tags/7.5.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-10T04:40:26Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- git-abort (cli)
- git-alias (cli)
- git-archive-file (cli)
- git-authors (cli)
- git-browse (cli)
- git-browse-ci (cli)
- git-brv (cli)
- git-bulk (cli)
- git-changelog (cli)
- git-clear (cli)
- git-clear-soft (cli)
- git-coauthor (cli)
- git-commits-since (cli)
- git-continue (cli)
- git-contrib (cli)
- git-count (cli)
- git-cp (cli)
- git-create-branch (cli)
- git-delete-branch (cli)
- git-delete-merged-branches (cli)
- git-delete-squashed-branches (cli)
- git-delete-submodule (cli)
- git-delete-tag (cli)
- git-delta (cli)
- git-effort (cli)
- git-extras (cli)
- git-feature (cli)
- git-force-clone (cli)
- git-fork (cli)
- git-fresh-branch (cli)
- git-get (cli)
- git-gh-pages (cli)
- git-graft (cli)
- git-guilt (cli)
- git-ignore (cli)
- git-ignore-io (cli)
- git-info (cli)
- git-local-commits (cli)
- git-lock (cli)
- git-locked (cli)
- git-magic (cli)
- git-merge-into (cli)
- git-merge-repo (cli)
- git-missing (cli)
- git-mr (cli)
- git-obliterate (cli)
- git-paste (cli)
- git-pr (cli)
- git-psykorebase (cli)
- git-pull-request (cli)
- git-reauthor (cli)
- git-rebase-patch (cli)
- git-release (cli)
- git-rename-branch (cli)
- git-rename-file (cli)
- git-rename-remote (cli)
- git-rename-tag (cli)
- git-repl (cli)
- git-reset-file (cli)
- git-root (cli)
- git-rscp (cli)
- git-scp (cli)
- git-sed (cli)
- git-setup (cli)
- git-show-merged-branches (cli)
- git-show-tree (cli)
- git-show-unmerged-branches (cli)
- git-squash (cli)
- git-stamp (cli)
- git-standup (cli)
- git-summary (cli)
- git-sync (cli)
- git-touch (cli)
- git-undo (cli)
- git-unlock (cli)
- git-unwip (cli)
- git-utimes (cli)
- git-wip (cli)
- git-abort (alias)
- git-alias (alias)
- git-archive-file (alias)
- git-authors (alias)
- git-browse (alias)
- git-browse-ci (alias)
- git-brv (alias)
- git-bulk (alias)
- git-changelog (alias)
- git-clear (alias)
- git-clear-soft (alias)
- git-coauthor (alias)
- git-commits-since (alias)
- git-continue (alias)
- git-contrib (alias)
- git-count (alias)
- git-cp (alias)
- git-create-branch (alias)
- git-delete-branch (alias)
- git-delete-merged-branches (alias)
- git-delete-squashed-branches (alias)
- git-delete-submodule (alias)
- git-delete-tag (alias)
- git-delta (alias)
- git-effort (alias)
- git-extras (alias)
- git-feature (alias)
- git-force-clone (alias)
- git-fork (alias)
- git-fresh-branch (alias)
- git-get (alias)
- git-gh-pages (alias)
- git-graft (alias)
- git-guilt (alias)
- git-ignore (alias)
- git-ignore-io (alias)
- git-info (alias)
- git-local-commits (alias)
- git-lock (alias)
- git-locked (alias)
- git-magic (alias)
- git-merge-into (alias)
- git-merge-repo (alias)
- git-missing (alias)
- git-mr (alias)
- git-obliterate (alias)
- git-paste (alias)
- git-pr (alias)
- git-psykorebase (alias)
- git-pull-request (alias)
- git-reauthor (alias)
- git-rebase-patch (alias)
- git-release (alias)
- git-rename-branch (alias)
- git-rename-file (alias)
- git-rename-remote (alias)
- git-rename-tag (alias)
- git-repl (alias)
- git-reset-file (alias)
- git-root (alias)
- git-rscp (alias)
- git-scp (alias)
- git-sed (alias)
- git-setup (alias)
- git-show-merged-branches (alias)
- git-show-tree (alias)
- git-show-unmerged-branches (alias)
- git-squash (alias)
- git-stamp (alias)
- git-standup (alias)
- git-summary (alias)
- git-sync (alias)
- git-touch (alias)
- git-undo (alias)
- git-unlock (alias)
- git-unwip (alias)
- git-utimes (alias)
- git-wip (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Caveats: To load Zsh completions, add the following to your .zshrc: source $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/git-extras/share/git-extras/git-extras-completion.zsh
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 7.5.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-05-10
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- Upstream latest detected: 7.5.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

git-extras is a long-running collection of small Git subcommands. It packages workflow helpers for branch creation, changelogs, summaries, releases, cleanup, browsing, ignore-file generation, and other tasks that Git users often script locally.

### Project history

The repository began in August 2010 under TJ Holowaychuk. Early commits and 0.0.x tags established the project's pattern: many small `git-*` executables installed so Git can dispatch them as `git <name>` subcommands.

The project reached 1.0.0 in February 2012 and continued through major release lines over the following decade. Its command set grew into dozens of utilities documented in `Commands.md`, including `git summary`, `git feature`, `git changelog`, `git effort`, `git ignore`, `git release`, `git undo`, and branch-cleanup helpers.

Version 6.4 in 2022 changed the assumed default branch from `master` to `main` while leaving configuration overrides through `git-extras.default-branch` or Git's `init.defaultBranch`. That change reflects how the project tracks common Git hosting conventions while preserving user configuration.

### Adoption history

git-extras is packaged broadly enough to appear in Homebrew, Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora-family distributions, MacPorts, Nix, Arch-family repositories, and other package-manager indexes represented in the input metadata.

Its ecosystem role is partly cultural: before every team had bespoke Git aliases, shell snippets, and hosted pull-request tools, git-extras collected common shell workflows into named Git subcommands with man pages and completions.

### How it is used

Practitioners install the package and then run commands through Git's subcommand mechanism, for example `git summary`, `git feature`, `git changelog`, `git release`, `git ignore`, `git undo`, or `git delete-merged-branches`.

Some commands read or write Git configuration in `.git/config` or `~/.gitconfig`; the README documents branch-name defaults through `git-extras.default-branch` and `init.defaultBranch`. The package is therefore often used as a personal workflow layer on top of plain Git.

### Why package nerds care

git-extras matters because it is a package of shell-level affordances rather than a single tool. It demonstrates Git's command-discovery design: any executable named `git-foo` on PATH can become `git foo`.

It also creates package-manager edge cases. Some commands overlap with standalone tools, including the `git-delete-merged-branches` name clash documented by the standalone branch-cleanup project.

### Timeline

- 2010: The repository begins and 0.0.x tags are released.
- 2012: Version 1.0.0 is released.
- 2014: Version 2.x releases continue expanding the command collection.
- 2015: Versions 3.0.0 and 4.0.0 are released.
- 2020: Version 6.0.0 is released.
- 2022: Version 6.4.0 changes the assumed default branch name to `main`.
- 2023: Version 7.0.0 is released.
- 2026: Version 7.5.0 is released.

### Related projects

- Git itself is the host command framework that discovers git-extras executables.
- hub, gh, diff-so-fancy, delta, and standalone branch-cleanup tools occupy adjacent Git workflow-helper territory.
- git-delete-merged-branches is directly related because both packages can provide a command with the same name.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-extras documents Homebrew packaging.>
- <https://github.com/tj/git-extras documents the README, installation, command list, default-branch behavior, and contribution workflow.>
- <https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md documents the command surface.>
- <https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/History.md documents release history.>


## Security Notes

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



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: .git/config, ~/.gitconfig
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** git-extras
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Conflicts With:** git-delete-merged-branches, git-ignore, git-standup, git-sync, ugit
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - git-extras - 7.3.0-1: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: git-extras from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Extra commands for git | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- Nix - git-extras: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-extras/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - git-extras - 7.1.0-1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-extras from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Extra commands for git | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- apk - git-extras - 7.4.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-extras from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Little git extras | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- apk - git-extras-bash-completion - 7.4.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-extras-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for git-extras | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- apk - git-extras-doc - 7.4.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-extras-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Little git extras (documentation) | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- dnf - git-extras - 7.3.0-4.fc44: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: git-extras from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst | Little git extras | https://github.com/tj/git-extras
- MacPorts - git-extras: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-extras/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- MacPorts - git-delta: installed executable or alias match | MacPorts ports tree: textproc/git-delta/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Debian apt - git-delete-merged-branches - 7.5.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: git-delete-merged-branches from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command-line tool to delete merged git branches | https://github.com/hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches
- Debian apt - git-delta - 0.18.2-4+b1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: git-delta from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output | https://dandavison.github.io/delta/
- Debian apt - python3-git-delete-merged-branches - 7.5.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-git-delete-merged-branches from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | command-line tool to delete merged git branches (Python module) | https://github.com/hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches
- Nix - git-delete-merged-branches: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-delete-merged-branches/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - git-delete-merged-branches - 7.4.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-delete-merged-branches from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | command-line tool to delete merged git branches | https://github.com/hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches
- Ubuntu apt - git-delta - 0.16.5-5: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-delta from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output | https://dandavison.github.io/delta/
- Ubuntu apt - python3-git-delete-merged-branches - 7.4.0-1: installed executable or alias match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-git-delete-merged-branches from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | command-line tool to delete merged git branches (Python module) | https://github.com/hartwork/git-delete-merged-branches


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- [git-flow](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-flow/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-fresh](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-fresh/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-delete-merged-branches](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-delete-merged-branches/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-delta](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-delta/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-filter-repo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-filter-repo/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-format-staged](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-format-staged/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
- [git-lfs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-lfs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extensions, version-control.
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## Combined YAML source

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


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- 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