diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 495f03344..29e0786ba 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -160,12 +160,7 @@ jobs:
             ${{ runner.os }}-
 
     - name: Install macOS packages
-      run: |
-        brew install pkg-config || brew upgrade pkg-config
-        brew install zstd || brew upgrade zstd
-        brew install lz4 || brew upgrade lz4
-        brew install xxhash || brew upgrade xxhash
-        brew install openssl@1.1 || brew upgrade openssl@1.1
+      run: brew bundle install
 
     - name: Install Python requirements
       run: |
diff --git a/Brewfile b/Brewfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d0ebf1e11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Brewfile
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+brew 'pkg-config'
+brew 'zstd'
+brew 'lz4'
+brew 'xxhash'
+brew 'openssl@1.1'
+
+# osxfuse (aka macFUSE) is only required for "borg mount",
+# but won't work on github actions' workers.
+# it requires installing a kernel extension, so some users
+# may want it and some won't.
+
+#cask 'osxfuse'
diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index fdac4fe6a..95c7218f7 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ e.g. 1.4.x).
 
 Start by checking out the appropriate branch:
 ::
+
     git checkout master
 
 It is best practice for a developer to keep local ``master`` branch as an
@@ -140,16 +141,19 @@ only to ``master``.
 
 Thus, create a new branch now:
 ::
+
     git checkout -b MYCONTRIB-master  # choose an appropriate own branch name
 
 Now, work on your contribution in that branch. Use these git commands:
 ::
+
     git status   # is there anything that needs to be added?
     git add ...  # if so, add it
     git commit   # finally, commit it. use a descriptive comment.
 
 Then push the changes to your Github repository:
 ::
+
     git push --set-upstream origin MYCONTRIB-master
 
 Finally, make a pull request on ``borgbackup/borg`` Github repository against
@@ -170,6 +174,7 @@ Next, check out the ``master`` branch again. Find the commit hash of the last
 commit that was made before you started working on your contribution and perform
 a hard reset.
 ::
+
     git checkout master
     git log
     git reset --hard THATHASH
@@ -177,6 +182,7 @@ a hard reset.
 Then, update the local ``master`` branch with changes made in the upstream
 repository.
 ::
+
     git pull borg master
 
 Rebase feature branch onto updated master branch
@@ -185,6 +191,7 @@ Rebase feature branch onto updated master branch
 After updating the local ``master`` branch from upstream, the feature branch
 can be checked out and rebased onto (the now uptodate) ``master`` branch.
 ::
+
     git checkout MYCONTRIB-master
     git rebase -i master
 
@@ -192,6 +199,7 @@ Next, check if there are any commits that exist in the feature branch
 but not in the ``master`` branch and vice versa. If there are no
 conflicts or after resolving them, push your changes to your Github repository.
 ::
+
     git log
     git diff master
     git push -f
diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst
index b80d8e7b3..150b7ddf9 100644
--- a/docs/installation.rst
+++ b/docs/installation.rst
@@ -245,16 +245,10 @@ Alternatively, you can enumerate all build dependencies in the command line::
 macOS
 +++++
 
-When installing via Homebrew_, dependencies are installed automatically. To install
-dependencies manually::
+When installing borgbackup via Homebrew_, the basic dependencies are installed automatically.
 
-    brew install python3 openssl zstd lz4 xxhash
-    brew install pkg-config
-    pip3 install virtualenv pkgconfig
-
-For FUSE support to mount the backup archives, you need at least version 3.0 of
-macFUSE, which is available via `github
-<https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/releases/latest>`__, or Homebrew::
+For FUSE support to mount the backup archives, you need macFUSE, which is available
+via `github <https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/releases/latest>`__, or Homebrew::
 
     brew install --cask macfuse
 
@@ -264,6 +258,13 @@ the installed ``openssl`` formula, point pkg-config to the correct path::
 
     PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1/lib/pkgconfig" pip install borgbackup[llfuse]
 
+When working from a borg git repo workdir, you can install dependencies using the
+Brewfile::
+
+    brew install python@3.11  # can be any supported python3 version
+    brew bundle install  # install requirements from borg repo's ./Brewfile
+    pip3 install virtualenv pkgconfig
+
 Be aware that for all recent macOS releases you must authorize full disk access.
 It is no longer sufficient to run borg backups as root. If you have not yet
 granted full disk access, and you run Borg backup from cron, you will see