# Install hub with Homebrew, apk, chocolatey, apt, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, scoop, winget, zypper

Add GitHub support to git on the command-line. Version 2.14.2 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:hub
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install hub
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install hub
```

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

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add hub
```

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

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install hub
```

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

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#hub
```

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

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S hub
```

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

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install hub
```

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

### Windows

- Chocolatey (92%):

```sh
choco install hub
```

  Evidence: Chocolatey community package catalog: hub from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','hexchat'

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install main/hub
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/hub.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id GitHub.hub -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: GitHub.hub from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:hub
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/hub>
- **Version:** 2.14.2
- **Source summary:** Add GitHub support to git on the command-line
- **Homepage:** <https://hub.github.com/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mislav/hub>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://hub.github.com/>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/mislav/hub/archive/refs/tags/v2.14.2.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## Executables

- hub (cli)
- hub (alias)

## Build dependencies

- go
- groff

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_big_sur, arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, big_sur, catalina, monterey, sonoma, ventura

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 2.14.2
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/mislav/hub
- Upstream latest detected: v2.14.2 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

hub is a GitHub-oriented command-line companion for Git. Its central idea is deliberately conservative: keep normal Git behavior, then add shorthand and subcommands for common GitHub work such as cloning owner/repository names, opening project pages, creating repositories, managing issues, pull requests, releases, and making GitHub API calls from scripts.

### Project history

The public GitHub repository was created in December 2009 under Mislav Marohnić's account, and the project later lived at the canonical github/hub repository while retaining the mislav/hub URL as an official repository redirect. The documentation describes hub as an extension to command-line Git, and its manual groups commands into Git commands that hub extends and GitHub-specific commands that hub adds.

hub occupied an important pre-gh niche: it made GitHub feel native inside a Git workflow before GitHub's separately branded gh CLI became the official general-purpose GitHub CLI. The hub README acknowledges gh as GitHub's more user-facing CLI while preserving hub's role as a lightweight Git wrapper and scripting tool.

### Adoption history

hub spread through developer package managers because it matched an everyday GitHub workflow rather than a narrow build-time need. The Homebrew formula metadata for this batch lists packages across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, MacPorts, Nix, Scoop, Chocolatey, winget, and other ecosystems, while the project README documents similarly broad install paths.

### How it is used

Typical use is interactive and scriptable: users alias hub as git, clone repositories by GitHub shorthand, fork or create repositories, open pull requests, inspect issues, publish releases, or drop to `hub api` for raw GitHub REST or GraphQL calls. Configuration and OAuth credentials are stored under the XDG-style hub configuration path unless a token is supplied through the environment.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, hub is a classic example of a small CLI that became distribution-worthy by wrapping an existing universal tool instead of replacing it. It also records a period in GitHub tooling history when third-party and community-maintained command-line clients filled gaps that later became first-party platform features.

### Timeline

- 2009: Public GitHub repository created for hub.
- 2014: GitHub Releases metadata records hub 1.12.x releases.
- 2020: hub 2.14.2 release published with manual pages identifying version 2.14.2.
- 2020s: README directs users who want GitHub's official general-purpose CLI toward gh while continuing to document hub's Git-wrapper workflow.

### Related projects

- Related projects include Git itself, GitHub's gh CLI, GitHub Enterprise, Gist, GitHub Actions, and the GitHub REST and GraphQL APIs exposed through `hub api`.

### Sources

- Official hub site, hub manual, repository README, GitHub repository metadata, GitHub Releases API, and Homebrew package metadata supplied in the batch input.


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## 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: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hub, ~/.config/hub

## Credential files

- Unix: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/hub, ~/.config/hub
## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** hub
- **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

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - hub - 2.14.2~ds1-1+b23: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: hub from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | make git easier with GitHub | https://github.com/github/hub
- Nix - hub: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/hu/hub/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - hub - 2.14.2~ds1-1ubuntu2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: hub from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | make git easier with GitHub | https://github.com/github/hub
- apk - hub - 2.14.2-r41: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hub from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Extends git with extra features for GitHub | https://hub.github.com/
- apk - hub-bash-completion - 2.14.2-r41: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hub-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for hub | https://hub.github.com/
- apk - hub-doc - 2.14.2-r41: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hub-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Extends git with extra features for GitHub (documentation) | https://hub.github.com/
- apk - hub-fish-completion - 2.14.2-r41: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hub-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for hub | https://hub.github.com/
- apk - hub-zsh-completion - 2.14.2-r41: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: hub-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for hub | https://hub.github.com/
- pacman - hub - 2.14.2-4: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: hub from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | cli interface for Github | https://hub.github.com
- zypper - hub - 2.14.2-2.9: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: hub from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/be8d3611d25469107f32075a1697e69ec57a2b850b42348a658cc671ad5ec2b50760d02c3e59524d50da9a11d5be799bdaffba2e166e8ca8858512e3c0bd665d-primary.xml.zst | Command-line wrapper for git and GitHub | https://github.com/github/hub
- MacPorts - hub: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/hub/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Chocolatey - hub: normalized package name match | Chocolatey community package catalog: hub from http://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/Packages?$filter=IsLatestVersion&$select=Id&$top=1000&$skiptoken='11','hexchat'
- Scoop - main/hub: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/hub.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - GitHub.hub: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GitHub.hub from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [go](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/go/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [groff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/groff/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [hub-tool](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/hub-tool/) - Package name indicates the same formula family.
- [gh](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/gh/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, github, github-cli.
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- [dura](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/dura/) - 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-cal](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/git-cal/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, command-line, control, developer, developer-tools.

## Combined YAML source

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