# Install git-remote-codecommit with Homebrew, Nix Git Remote Helper to interact with AWS CodeCommit. Version 1.17 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-13. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:git-remote-codecommit ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install git-remote-codecommit ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#git-remote-codecommit ``` Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-remote-codecommit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:git-remote-codecommit - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 1.17 - **Source summary:** Git Remote Helper to interact with AWS CodeCommit - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** Apache-2.0 - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-05-13T10:41:53Z - **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00 ## Executables - git-remote-codecommit (cli) - git-remote-codecommit (alias) ## Dependencies - python@3.14 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on all ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-09 - Package-manager version: 1.17 - Package-manager updated: 2026-05-13 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/aws/git-remote-codecommit - info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available. ## Project history and usage git-remote-codecommit is Amazon Web Services' Git remote helper for AWS CodeCommit, adding codecommit:// URL handling so Git can push to and pull from CodeCommit repositories through AWS credential profiles. ### Project history The repository began in March 2018 with AWS template files and README setup instructions. Tagged releases began with 1.0 in January 2020, and the package metadata identifies Amazon Web Services as the author with an Apache-2.0 license and a Python console entry point named git-remote-codecommit. The README and AWS User Guide position the helper as a way to avoid separate Git credential setup, especially for federated access, temporary credentials, root-account access, IAM Identity Center, and IAM users configured through the AWS CLI. ### Adoption history The helper matters because CodeCommit used AWS IAM rather than the username/password or SSH-key flows common on public Git forges. Official AWS documentation recommends git-remote-codecommit for federated, identity-provider, and temporary-credential workflows, while package-manager metadata shows Homebrew and Nix distribution beyond pip. ### How it is used Practitioners configure AWS CLI profiles in ~/.aws/config and ~/.aws/credentials, install the Python package, then clone repositories with URLs such as codecommit://profile@RepositoryName or codecommit::region://profile@RepositoryName. Git invokes the remote helper through its remote-helper mechanism when it sees that URL scheme. The tool is used in developer workstations, CI jobs, and temporary-credential environments where CodeCommit access needs to follow AWS IAM role or profile resolution rather than static Git credentials. ### Why package nerds care git-remote-codecommit is a vendor-maintained example of Git's remote-helper extension model packaged as a Python console script and redistributed by OS package managers. It bridges Git's transport abstraction with AWS's credential chain, making it significant to users who care about package-managed integrations between generic developer tools and cloud identity systems. ### Timeline - 2018: Repository initialized by AWS. - 2020: 1.0 tag published. - 2020: 1.15.1 tag published after early 1.x releases. - 2021: 1.16 tag published. - 2023: 1.17 tag published. ### Related projects - AWS CodeCommit is the hosted Git service the helper connects to. - AWS CLI and botocore provide credential and region resolution for the helper. - Git's remote-helper protocol is the extension point that makes the codecommit:// URL scheme work. ### Sources - - - - ## Security Notes No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for git-remote-codecommit. 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: ~/.aws/config ## Credential files - Unix: ~/.aws/credentials ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** git-remote-codecommit - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 7 - **Head Version:** HEAD - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** head, stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - git-remote-codecommit: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-remote-codecommit/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Related links - [Cloud CLI packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/cloud-clis/) - Belongs to a cloud or infrastructure command family. - [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. - [python@3.14](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/python-3-14/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [git-pages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-pages/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-pkgs](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-pkgs/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-plus](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-plus/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-quick-stats](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-quick-stats/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-recent](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-recent/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-revise](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-revise/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, git-extension, version-control. - [git-cinnabar](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-cinnabar/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, remote-helper, version-control. - [aicommit](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aicommit/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [git-machete](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-machete/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, extension. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/git-remote-codecommit.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/git-remote-codecommit.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