Installation
Git Town ships as a single self-contained binary. It doesn't bundle a Git client but uses the native Git installation on your machine.
macOS
The easiest way to install Git Town on macOS is via Homebrew:
brew install git-town
Git Town is available via MacPorts. You can also install Git Town manually or compile from source.
Windows
The easiest way to install Git Town on Windows is to download the Windows installer and run it. You can also install Git Town via scoop:
scoop bucket add org https://github.com/git-town/scoop.git
scoop install git-town
You can also install Git Town manually or compile from source.
If you use the Windows Subsystem for Linux, please install wsl-open to allow the commands git town repo and git town new-pull-request to open a browser window for you.
Linux
On Debian-based systems,
download the .deb file
matching your CPU architecture and run:
sudo apt-get install git-town_9.0.1_linux_intel_64.deb
On RedHat-based systems
download the .rpm file
matching your CPU architecture and run
rpm -i git-town_9.0.1_linux_intel_64.rpm
On Arch Linux, install the git-town package from the AUR.
You can install Git Town via Homebrew for Linux:
brew install git-town
You can also install Git Town manually or compile from source.
manual installation
curl https://git-town.com/install.sh | sh
For a fully custom installation,
download the archive matching
your CPU architecture, extract it, and move the git-town executable into a
directory listed in your $PATH, for example /usr/local/bin.
compile from source
If you have the Go compiler installed, you can compile the latest version of Git Town from source by running:
go get github.com/git-town/git-town
New releases
Subscribe to the Git Town release feed to get notifications about new releases.
Uninstall
To remove Git Town from your system:
- Remove Git Town's aliases:
git town aliases false - Remove the Git Town configuration from your repositories: in each repo, run
git town config reset - If your operating system or package manager provides an uninstaller for Git Town, run it. If you installed Git Town manually, delete the binary.