Homebrew Formulae: git

git

Install command:

brew install git

Distributed revision control system

License: GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT

Formula code: git.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

Current versions:

stable	✅	2.56.0
head	⚡️	HEAD

Revision: 1

Depends on:

pcre2	10.49	Perl compatible regular expressions library with a new API
gettext	1.0	GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library

Depends on when building from source:

gettext	1.0	GNU internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) library
pkgconf	3.0.8	Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit

Uses from macOS: curl, expat

Binaries: git, git-cvsserver, git-receive-pack, git-shell, git-upload-archive, git-upload-pack, scalar

The Tcl/Tk GUIs (e.g. gitk, git-gui) are now in the `git-gui` formula.
Subversion interoperability (git-svn) is now in the `git-svn` formula.

Known vulnerabilities in the current version:

CVE-2026-86219 (critical)

Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5 versions before 2.2100 for Perl accept replayed authentication res...

Data from Homebrew/advisory-database. Run brew vulns git for a live check.

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