Installation¶
Install Homebrew-file with Homebrew:
$ brew install rcmdnk/file/brew-file
or you can use install script:
$ curl -o install.sh -fsSL https://raw.github.com/rcmdnk/homebrew-file/install/install.sh
$ chmod 755 ./install.sh
$ ./install.sh
$ rm -f install.sh
which installs Homebrew itself, too, if it is not installed.
Then, add following lines in you .bashrc or .zshrc to wrap brew
command:
if [ -f $(brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap ];then
source $(brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap
fi
Or, for Fish Shell add the following lines in your config.fish to wrap brew
command:
if test -f (brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap.fish
source (brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap.fish
end
brew-wrap wraps the original brew
command
for an automatic update of Brewfile when you execute
such a brew install
or brew uninstall
.
Note
2/Feb/2023 update
The default place of Brewfile uses $XDG_CONFIG_HOME if it is defined.
Note
21/Sep/2017 update
The default place of Brewfile has been changed from:
~/.brewfile/Brewfile
to:
~/.config/brewfile/Brewfile
If ~/.config/brewfile/Brewfile doesn’t exist but ~/.brewfile/Brewfile exists, ~/.brewfile/Brewfile is used as default Brewfile.
Note
17/Dec/2015 update
The default place of Brewfile has been changed from:
/usr/local/Library/Brewfile
to:
~/.brewfile/Brewfile
because Homebrew deletes files under /usr/local other than
Homebrew’s one when such brew update
is executed.
(Homebrew checkout its repository as /usr/local.)
If you used an old default setting (/usr/local/Library/Brewfile), you might lose Brewfile.
In such case, please try brew file init
and chose local Brewfile, which makes
new file ~/.brewfile/Brewfile.
If you used git repository, you might see a output when you executed brew update
:
$ brew update
Ignoring path Library/rcmdnk_Brewfile/
To restore the stashed changes to /usr/local run:
`cd /usr/local && git stash pop`
Already up-to-date.
In this case, please delete /usr/local/Library/<your_git_account>_Brewfile,
then do brew file set_repo
.
New repository will be checked out to ~/.brewfile/<your_git_account>_Brewfile.