Homebrew formula for the `but` cli

[storopoli]

It would be really nice if we could have a CLI only formula in homebrew.
We already have the gitbutler cask.

[Byron]

Thanks a lot for this suggestion. I'd also like to properly distribute Git Butler via brew.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about how this was achieved in the past and who's responsible for it, but my hope is that @slarse as found out more already due to his past adventures with builds and distribution.

[krlvi]

Currently the but CLI is the same binary as the GUI app as well (the binary behaves differently depending on how it's invoked), so this is not something we can support immediately. But we are changing things up, and in the future this will not be case (for example we are moving the GUI app away from Tauri, which will change the distribution setup anyways).

With that said, I think on Mac I am not sure what a brew install means for updating within the app - something for us to investigate first

[slarse]

With that said, I think on Mac I am not sure what a brew install means for updating within the app - something for us to investigate first

@OliverJAsh may have some insights on this, we looked briefly at the current cask.

It gets really odd if you run install via brew and then run e.g. but update install. brew installs into some Homebrew-controlled directory, and but update install installs into ~/Applications, leading to duplicate installs.

My current understanding is that we don't provide any maintenance for the current Homebrew cask (which in part allowed the above weirdness), so until we pick that up some maintenance there we most definitely should not assist in adding a new one. I know that Homebrew is popular and am all for providing casks there as long as we assist in maintaining them and keep them in mind when developing.

[OliverJAsh]

With that said, I think on Mac I am not sure what a brew install means for updating within the app - something for us to investigate first

I install all GUIs using casks. My experience has been: install it with brew and then let the app auto update itself. Unfortunately that's as much as I know!