install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install git-xargs

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/git-xargs

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

overview

Package summary

CLI for making updates across multiple Github repositories with a single command

Project links

Commands and aliases

git-xargs

history

Project history and usage

git-xargs is a Gruntwork command-line tool for applying one command or script across many GitHub repositories. Its niche is organizational repository maintenance: cloning targets, running an operation, committing changes, opening pull requests, and reporting the outcome.

Project history

The project appeared as a Go CLI in Gruntwork's open source tooling around 2021, with tagged releases beginning at v0.0.1 on April 20, 2021. Its README frames the tool around repeated multi-repository jobs such as adding files, renaming products, upgrading Terraform modules, or adding CI configuration across many repositories.

Adoption history

Adoption is concentrated in teams that manage many GitHub repositories, especially infrastructure and platform groups. Package availability through Homebrew and Scoop made it easier to treat the tool as a workstation utility rather than a one-off script copied between organizations.

How it is used

Practitioners provide a command or script plus repository selectors, often an organization or a file of repositories. git-xargs then performs the repetitive GitHub workflow around that command: clone, change, commit, pull request, and summarize.

Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, git-xargs represents the small but valuable class of CLIs that automate repository hygiene at fleet scale. It is less a Git replacement than a GitHub operations multiplier.

Timeline

2021: First tagged releases of git-xargs.
2021: README examples described organization-wide pull-request generation.
2021: Homebrew installation documented alongside release binaries and Go installation.

Related projects

Git provides the underlying repository operations.
GitHub provides the repository hosting and pull-request workflow that git-xargs automates.
Gruntwork maintains the project as part of its infrastructure-tooling ecosystem.

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 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

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`git-xargs`	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 version0.1.16

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedv0.1.16

https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:git-xargs
Version	0.1.16
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-xargs
Homepage	https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs
Repository	https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs
Upstream docs	https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs#readme
License	Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/gruntwork-io/git-xargs/archive/refs/tags/v0.1.16.tar.gz
Build dependencies	go
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, 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-xargs
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
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.

Scoop95%

main/git-xargs

scoop install main/git-xargs

normalized package name match
Matched by: Git Xargs

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/git-xargs.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.

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-xargs.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

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