Installation

Prerequisites

Before installing Git Wrangler, make sure you have:

Dependency	Required for	Install
`git`	All operations	git-scm.com
`gh`	`clone`, `rename-repo`	cli.github.com
`git-filter-repo`	History rewriting	GitHub

git is required for everything. gh and git-filter-repo are only needed if you plan to use their respective commands.

One-liner install

Run the following in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kaufmann-dev/git-wrangler/main/install | bash

This will:

Clone the repository to ~/.git-wrangler
Create a symlink at ~/.local/bin/git-wrangler (or /usr/local/bin as fallback)
Verify the installation

Platform support

Platform	Status
macOS	✅ Native
Linux	✅ Native
Windows (Git Bash)	✅ Supported
Windows (WSL)	✅ Supported

Verify the installation

git-wrangler help

You should see the help menu listing all available commands.

Updating

Keep Git Wrangler up to date by running:

git-wrangler update

This compares your local commit against the remote and applies the update if one is available.

Uninstalling

To remove Git Wrangler cleanly:

git-wrangler uninstall

This removes the ~/.git-wrangler directory and the git-wrangler symlink. No other files are touched.

Manual install

If you prefer to clone manually:

git clone https://github.com/kaufmann-dev/git-wrangler ~/.git-wrangler
ln -s ~/.git-wrangler/git-wrangler ~/.local/bin/git-wrangler
chmod +x ~/.git-wrangler/git-wrangler ~/.git-wrangler/libexec/git-wrangler-*