# Install git-series with Homebrew, Nix Track changes to a patch series over time. Version 0.9.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-22. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:git-series ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install git-series ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Linux - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#git-series ``` Evidence: 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 facts - **Package key:** brew:git-series - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 0.9.1 - **Source summary:** Track changes to a patch series over time - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** MIT - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-22T14:03:31-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00 ## Executables - git-series (cli) - git-series (alias) ## Dependencies - libgit2 - libssh2 - openssl@3 ## Build dependencies - pkgconf - rust ## 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: 2026-07-09 - Package-manager version: 0.9.1 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-22 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://github.com/git-series/git-series - Upstream latest detected: 0.9.1 (current) ## 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 Notes narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger risk:** green / low - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** git-series - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 13 - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** yes - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - Nix - git-series: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/gi/git-series/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. - [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata. - [libgit2](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libgit2/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew. - [wiggle](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/wiggle/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, patch-management, version-control. - [braid](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/braid/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [codeberg-cli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/codeberg-cli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [dura](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dura/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [gcli](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gcli/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [git-branchless](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-branchless/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [git-cinnabar](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-cinnabar/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [git-cola](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-cola/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control. - [git-workspace](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-workspace/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. - [git-xet](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-xet/) - Package names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, control, developer, developer-tools, git. ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/git-series.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/git-series.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