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brew tap
adds more repositories to the list of formulae that brew
tracks, updates,and installs from. By default, tap
assumes that the repositories come from GitHub,but the command isn’t limited to any one location.
The brew tap
command
brew tap
without arguments lists the currently tapped repositories. Forexample:
brew tap <user/repo>
makes a clone of the repository athttps://github.com/user/homebrew-repo. After that,brew
will be able to work onthose formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s canonical repository. You caninstall and uninstall them withbrew [un]install
, and the formulae areautomatically updated when you runbrew update
. (See below for detailsabout howbrew tap
handles the names of repositories.)brew tap <user/repo> <URL>
makes a clone of the repository at URL.Unlike the one-argument version, URL is not assumed to be GitHub, and itdoesn’t have to be HTTP. Any location and any protocol that Git can handle isfine.brew tap --repair
migrates tapped formulae from a symlink-based todirectory-based structure. (This should only need to be run once.)brew untap user/repo [user/repo user/repo ...]
removes the given taps. Therepositories are deleted andbrew
will no longer be aware of their formulae.brew untap
can handle multiple removals at once.
Repository naming conventions and assumptions
On GitHub, your repository must be named
homebrew-something
in order to usethe one-argument form ofbrew tap
. The prefix ‘homebrew-‘ is not optional.(The two-argument form doesn’t have this limitation, but it forces you togive the full URL explicitly.)When you use
brew tap
on the command line, however, you can leave out the‘homebrew-‘ prefix in commands.That is,
brew tap username/foobar
can be used as a shortcut for the longversion:brew tap username/homebrew-foobar
.brew
will automatically addback the ‘homebrew-‘ prefix whenever it’s necessary.
Formula with duplicate names
If your tap contains a formula that is also present inhomebrew/core, that’s fine,but it means that you must install it explicitly by default.
Whenever a brew install foo
command is issued, brew
will find which formulato use by searching in the following order:
Github Brew Install
- core formulae
- other taps
If you need a formula to be installed from a particular tap, you can use fullyqualified names to refer to them.
You can create a tap for an alternative vim
formula. The behaviour will be:
As a result, we recommend you give formulae a different name if you want to makethem easier to install. Note that there is (intentionally) no way of replacingdependencies of core formulae with those from taps.