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Install sugarjar with Homebrew, apt, dnf

Helper utility for a better Git/GitHub experience. Version 3.0.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19.

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Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install sugarjar

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install sugarjar

Debian stable package indexes · sugarjar · source: deb.debian.org

Fedora dnfverified · 92%
sudo dnf install sugarjar

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · sugarjar · source: dl.fedoraproject.org

overview

Package summary

Helper utility for a better Git/GitHub experience

Commands and aliases

  • sj

history

Project history and usage

SugarJar is a Ruby command-line helper for Git plus GitHub and GitLab workflows, installed as `sj`. It belongs to the tradition of developer workflow wrappers that package managers carry because they encode a maintainer's preferred Git hygiene into a reproducible CLI.

Project history

The official README says SugarJar is inspired by Arcanist and Facebook's JellyFish, bringing features from Phabricator-style workflows to GitHub. Its focus is practical repository work: smarter clones, branch cleanup, stacked branches, smart pull requests, pre-push checks, and safer force-push behavior.

The official changelog records a 1.0.0 release in October 2023, later 2.x releases that removed `hub` support and required Ruby 3.2, and 3.x releases adding GitLab use cases.

Adoption history

The Homebrew input records SugarJar in Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu package sets. That is modest but meaningful adoption for a personal workflow tool: it has escaped a single checkout and become something downstream packagers can build and ship.

How it is used

SugarJar's README documents commands such as `sj smartclone`, `sj bclean`, `sj smartlog`, `sj smartpush`, and `sj fpush`. It wraps common Git and forge operations while relying on standard tools such as Ruby, `git`, `gh`, or `glab`.

Why package nerds care

Package nerds care about SugarJar because it shows a common packaging pattern: a small opinionated wrapper around ubiquitous tools. Its value is not replacing Git, but standardizing repeated contributor tasks enough that users want it installed from the same package manager as Git itself.

Timeline

  • 2020: Changelog entries show early 0.0.x development with smart pull-request and branch-cleanup features.
  • 2023: Version 1.0.0 adds feature-prefix support and defaults to the GitHub CLI.
  • 2024: Version 1.1.1 relaxes Ruby requirements for easier packaging.
  • 2025: Version 2.x removes `hub` support and requires Ruby 3.2 or later.
  • 2026: Version 3.x adds GitLab support.

Related projects

  • The README names Arcanist and JellyFish as inspirations, and documents `gh` and `glab` as forge CLI dependencies.

Sources

  • Input package-manager data: source_facts.package-manager
  • Official README: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar#readme
  • Official changelog: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
  • Official releases: https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/releases

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.

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

CommandKindExposureNote
sjcliglobal 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 version3.0.1
manager updated2026-06-19
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv3.0.1

https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:sugarjar
Version3.0.1
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/sugarjar
Homepagehttps://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar
Upstream docshttps://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar#readme
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar/archive/refs/tags/v3.0.1.tar.gz
Last updated2026-06-19T18:44:54Z
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesgh, glab, ruby
Uses from macOSlibffi
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namesugarjar
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
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.

Debian apt95%

sugarjar 2.0.1-3

Git/GitHub helper script

https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar

sudo apt install sugarjar
  • Section: vcs
  • Architecture: all
  • 6 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Sugarjar
Debian stable package indexes · deb.debian.org · Debian stable package indexes: sugarjar from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz
Ubuntu apt95%

sugarjar 1.1.1-1

Git/GitHub helper script

https://github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar

sudo apt install sugarjar
  • Section: universe/vcs
  • Architecture: all
  • 7 dependencies
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Sugarjar
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes · archive.ubuntu.com · Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sugarjar from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
dnf95%

sugarjar 3.0.0-4.fc45

A git/github helper utility

http://www.github.com/jaymzh/sugarjar

sudo dnf install sugarjar
  • License: Apache-2.0
  • Category: Unspecified
  • Architecture: noarch
  • Source Package: rubygem-sugarjar
  • 7 dependencies
  • 2 provides
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Sugarjar
Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: sugarjar from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • ghRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • glabRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • rubyRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • gcliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, github, version-control.
  • hubShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, github, version-control.
  • braidShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • codeberg-cliShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • duraShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.
  • git-branchlessShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, git, version-control.

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.

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