install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install git-series

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#git-series

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

overview

Package summary

Track changes to a patch series over time

Project links

Commands and aliases

git-series

history

Project history and usage

git-series is a Git extension for recording the evolution of a patch series, including cover letters, rebases, interdiffs, formatted email output, and pull-request preparation.

Project history

The project appeared in 2016 as a Rust-based answer to a long-standing problem in patch-review workflows: Git stores commits well, but a rebased patch series normally loses its review history outside of branch names, reflogs, or external patch queues. The README frames git-series around the path from an initial idea through repeated RFC and PATCH revisions, where maintainers need to see what changed between versions of the series.

Its design keeps the patch-series metadata in the same Git repository and relies on ordinary Git transport, so a series can be pushed and pulled alongside branches and tags. The tool predates Git's built-in range-diff command and its README explicitly compares its series-diff format with range-diff style output.

Adoption history

Adoption is specialized rather than broad: the tool mainly fits email-driven review cultures, distribution packaging, backports, and teams that repeatedly rebase non-fast-forward patch queues. Its presence in Homebrew and Nix gives it package-manager reach beyond Cargo users, but its audience is narrower than general-purpose Git porcelain.

How it is used

Practitioners start a named series, set a base commit, edit ordinary Git commits, record semantic series checkpoints, maintain a cover letter, compare versions with series diffs, and format numbered patch sets for email review.

Why package nerds care

git-series is notable because it packages a patch-queue workflow without leaving Git's object model. It sits between quilt-style patch stacks and normal rebasing branches, making it useful to people who care about source-package maintenance, long-lived review series, and reproducible patch submission history.

Timeline

2016: First public code and v0.8 tags appeared in the GitHub repository.
2016: README documented series commits, cover letters, email formatting, and series diffs.
2024: Repository activity included updates after the original 2016 tag series.

Related projects

The README relates git-series to quilt, distribution patch packages, named Git branches, git format-patch, and Git's range-diff style of comparing rewritten commits.

Sources

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 6 platform targets.
Installs with 3 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 2 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
`git-series`	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 version0.9.1

manager updated2026-06-22

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detected0.9.1

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

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:git-series
Version	0.9.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-series
Homepage	https://github.com/git-series/git-series
Repository	https://github.com/git-series/git-series
Upstream docs	https://github.com/git-series/git-series#readme
License	MIT
Source archive	https://github.com/git-series/git-series/archive/refs/tags/0.9.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-06-22T14:03:31-07:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	libgit2, libssh2, openssl@3
Build dependencies	pkgconf, rust
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	git-series
Version Scheme	0
Revision	13
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	yes
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	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-series

nix profile install nixpkgs#git-series

normalized package name match
Matched by: Git Series

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-series/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/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.

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/git-series.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

Install git-series with Homebrew, Nix