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Review some docs 
- Most of these were fine still, apart from:
  - FAQ: `hub` is less maintained than `gh`.
  - Brew-Maintainer-Guide: link to GitHub docs on commit signing via GPG or SSH.
  - Interesting-Taps-and-Forks: remove outdated information about `homebrew/core` being in `Library/Taps`.
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Interesting Taps and Forks

A tap is Homebrew-speak for a Git repository containing additional formulae.

Homebrew has the capability to add (and remove) multiple taps to your local installation with the brew tap and brew untap commands; run man brew in your terminal for usage information.

Your taps are Git repositories located at $(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. As a normal user, you usually won't see homebrew/core here anymore and that's OK - normal usage is via the JSON API.

Unsupported interesting taps

  • DomT4/autoupdate: An external command to automatically run brew update (and optionally brew upgrade or brew cleanup) in the background with launchd.

  • homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg: A tap for FFmpeg with additional options, including nonfree additions.

  • denji/nginx: A tap for NGINX modules, intended for its nginx-full formula which includes more module options.

  • InstantClientTap/instantclient: A tap for Oracle Instant Client.

  • osx-cross/avr: GNU AVR toolchain (Libc, compilers and other tools for Atmel MCUs), useful for Arduino hackers and AVR programmers.

  • petere/postgresql: Allows installing multiple PostgreSQL versions in parallel.

  • osrf/simulation: Tools for robotics simulation.

  • brewsci/bio: Bioinformatics formulae.

  • davidchall/hep: High energy physics formulae.

  • lifepillar/appleii: Formulae for vintage Apple emulation.

  • gromgit/fuse: macOS FUSE formulae that are no longer available in homebrew/core.

  • cloudflare/cloudflare: Formulae for the applications by Cloudflare, including curl with HTTP/3 support.

  • apple/apple: Formulae from Apple, including the Game Porting Toolkit.

Unsupported interesting forks