homebrew cask (level 0): contributing a new cask

Laurent Perrinet

2013-11-08 13:36

homebrew casks are a friendly homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries. Something I always needed, hoped to get with the app store, frowned when openoffice or vlc were absent, and here they are!
see my list of casks I currently use (it is also a script to install them)

preparing by forking the

cd $(brew --prefix)/Library/Taps/phinze-cask
github_user='meduz'
echo $github_user
git remote add $github_user https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask

create, then install / edit cycle

project='texshop'
brew cask create $project
brew cask install $project
brew cask edit $project
brew cask install $project
brew cask audit $project  --download

publishing results

git status
git checkout -b $project
git add Casks/$project.rb
git commit -v
git push $github_user $project

confirm the pull request

open https://github.com/$github_user/homebrew-cask

result is https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/pull/1530
come back to the master branch
```
git checkout master
```
this was easy! ... but wait, I mystyped something...