build: publish a Homebrew formula instead of a cask - #36
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This is a CLI binary — no bundle, no installer, no service — which is formula territory rather than cask territory. Casks also flag their downloads with com.apple.quarantine, which is the only reason the ad-hoc codesign postflight hook existed here; formulae do not, so it is gone. GoReleaser deprecates `brews` on the grounds that binary-installing formulae are "hackyish" and were only needed because Linuxbrew could not handle casks. That constraint was never our reason for using them, and there is no announced removal date. Formulae work on Homebrew for Linux exactly as they do on macOS.
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The README predated several shipped changes: the Homebrew formula (#36), the action's install-only input (#31), and the bench script's move into .github/. It also pointed users at go install without warning that the binary lands as go-pre-commit while the installed hooks exec pre-commit by name. - README: add Homebrew install, document install-only, fix bench path, refresh version examples, note the go install binary-name gotcha, and document that make check does not lint - AGENTS.md: add missing internal/fsutil/ to the structure; drop the hardcoded goreleaser version (drift bait — .tool-versions is the pin) - action.yml: refresh the version input's example string - bench.sh: cd to the repo root, not .github/ — the script was moved there without updating its paths, so it could never find the binary
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Moves this repo from
homebrew_casks:back tobrews:.Why
A CLI binary with no bundle, no installer and no service is formula territory, not cask territory. Two concrete consequences of the cask:
brew servicesis unavailable to casks entirely — casks have noservicestanza.com.apple.quarantine. That is the only reason the ad-hoccodesignpostflight hook existed in this config. Formulae do not quarantine, so the workaround is deleted rather than carried forward.On the deprecation
GoReleaser marks
brewsdeprecated in favour ofhomebrew_casks. The stated reason:That is about Linuxbrew once being unable to handle casks — a constraint that was never our reason for using formulae. There is no announced removal date (soft since v2.10, formal since v2.16). Formulae work on Homebrew for Linux exactly as they always have, so nothing here regresses on Linux.
Verification
goreleaser checkpasses (with the expectedbrewsdeprecation notice), and a snapshot build emitsdist/homebrew/Formula/*.rbinstead ofCasks/*.rb.