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Providing a Homebrew tap backed by private GitHub repo
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First of all, install Homebrew itself.

As the tap is a private Git repo, you need to generate a GitHub token with repo scope and then add this token to your ~/.netrc file like this:

machine github.com
  login <your GitHub user>
  password <your GitHub token>

Now you can add the tap to your system:

brew tap user/repo

Afterwards, you can finally install tools provided by the tap:

Install the current version of tool XYZ:

brew install XYZ

Install the latest version of tool XYZ:

brew rm XYZ; brew install --HEAD XYZ
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One very hacky option: set the url in the formula to file:///tmp/file.tar.gz and let your install instructions be:

curl https://url/to/file.tar.gz > /tmp/file.tar.gz
brew install <owner>/<repo>/<file>

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