jacebrowning/gitman

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Language-agnostic dependency manager using Git.

Stars: 225
Forks: 36
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 25
Avg merge: 15h 47m
Merged PRs (30d): 8

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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25 open issues indexed

Is there a reason uninstall doesn't take depth? Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

jacebrowning/gitman#477 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Source code is incorrectly shown in the documentation Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

jacebrowning/gitman#413 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2026
Repo can be cloned with incomplete name Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jacebrowning/gitman#398 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2025
Feature request: Equivalent of git push --recurse-submodules=check to verify submodules have no unpushed or uncommitted changes Open

feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#389 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Support for network agnostic builds Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#361 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 14, 2025
Add --no-cone option to sparse checkout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jacebrowning/gitman#360 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 30, 2025
Question: how is the Gitman cache updated? Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

jacebrowning/gitman#355 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 24, 2025
About using gitman with CR/LF line ending setting Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#319 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2023
Detect changes in remote repositories when listing dependencies Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#302 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2023
Support creating hard links (in additional to symlinks) Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#301 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 3, 2023
Clone sources in parallel Open

feature question

jacebrowning/gitman#281 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 14, 2022
Add dependencies from the CLI Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jacebrowning/gitman#279 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 26, 2022
Support for installing in "bare" with depth=1 and no .git folder Open

feature

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#260 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2021
Using install and `--fetch`, gitman does not reset local branch to the remote version Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#258 · 2 comments · Opened May 7, 2021
Add `recurse` option in config Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

jacebrowning/gitman#235 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2020
Failing to install dependencies on Windows Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#233 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 30, 2020
Adding progress bar when cloning repo's Open

feature help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

jacebrowning/gitman#226 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 2, 2020
Gitman ignores groups on nested gitman install runs Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jacebrowning/gitman#222 · 15 comments · Opened Aug 20, 2020
Support pyoxidizer to generate standalone executables Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

jacebrowning/gitman#204 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 27, 2019
Lock command removes comments from configuration file Open

bug

jacebrowning/gitman#170 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 26, 2018
Support nesting the same repository Open

feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jacebrowning/gitman#158 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 20, 2017
Simplify the 'sources_locked' section Open

chore

jacebrowning/gitman#146 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 20, 2017
Flat hierarchy resolution Open

feature help wanted

jacebrowning/gitman#128 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 24, 2016
Checkout branches when possible Open

chore help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jacebrowning/gitman#74 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2015
Add a Homebrew installation option Open

chore help wanted

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

jacebrowning/gitman#4 · Opened Feb 12, 2015

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