Installation

Requirements

Go 1.24 or higher (required for building from source or go install)
CGO enabled — Prune uses go-tree-sitter, which has C bindings. CGO must not be disabled.

Building from Source

Clone the repository and build the binary:

git clone https://github.com/carlosedujs/prune.git
cd prune
go build -o prune ./cmd/prune

Move the binary to a directory on your PATH:

mv prune /usr/local/bin/prune

Installing with `go install`

go install github.com/carlosedujs/prune/cmd/prune@latest

CGO must be enabled when installing via go install. Cross-compilation without CGO support will fail to build the tree-sitter dependency.

Downloading a Binary

Pre-built binaries for Linux (amd64, arm64), macOS (amd64, arm64), and Windows (amd64) are available as release artifacts on the GitHub Releases page.

Download the archive for your platform, extract it, and place the binary on your PATH.

Example for Linux amd64:

curl -L https://github.com/carlosedujs/prune/releases/latest/download/prune_Linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz
mv prune /usr/local/bin/prune

Verifying the Installation

prune version

Expected output:

prune version  0.3.0-beta.1