Install via Homebrew

[carlowahlstedt]

Feature description

Homebrew is a really nice way to manage installing and updating applications on macOS. Is there any way to be able to install this that way?

[jrbriggs]

We haven't yet set up distribution through Homebrew, but it's very much on our radar. We'll use this issue to track.

Thanks for the interest!

[aaroncrespo]

We'd probably switch to this project over the old java based solution. However, no homebrew is a bit of a blocker since thats how we provision machines on my team.

I threw together a rough (untested) cask file. Cask because this is currently distributed via pkgutil:

cask 'Git-Credential-Manager-Core' do
  version '2.0.87build15236'
  sha256 '843b2eae147e784789246c043b7f7a54b85139d9'
  
  # strip build\d+ for the path
  # replace build with . for the pkg name
  url "https://github.com/microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core/releases/download/v#{version.sub(%r{build\d+}, '')}-beta/gcmcore-osx-#{version.sub(%r{build}, '.')}.pkg"

  name 'Git Credential Manager Core'

  homepage 'https://github.com/Microsoft/Git-Credential-Manager-Core'

  pkg "gcmcore-osx-#{version.sub(%r{build}, '.')}.pkg"

  uninstall script:  {
                       executable: 'uninstall.sh',
                       sudo:       true,
                     },
            pkgutil: 'com.microsoft.GitCredentialManager'
end

see https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/doc/cask_language_reference/stanzas/version.md for why version|build is modified as it is.

[aaroncrespo]

Any movement on this? I would love to move our systems over and away from a java dependency.

[mjcheetham]

Hello all! Just an update that we've been working on getting GCM Core delivered via Homebrew.
You can try using our new Tap and installing the Cask from there:

brew tap microsoft/git
brew cask install git-credential-manager-core

Please file any issues if you encounter them :)
Thanks especially to @aaroncrespo ❤️