How To Install git-autofixup on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-autofixup
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is git-autofixup
git-autofixup is:
git-autofixup creates fixup commits from changes in the worktree. This can save the tedious work of amending fixes into the appropriate commits during codereview.
Changes to consider are parsed out of git-diff(1) and git-blame(1) is used to assign hunks to commits since the revision given on the commandline, which will typically represent a topic branch. Then it creates fixup commits to be used with git rebase –autosquash.
There are three methods to install git-autofixup
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install git-autofixup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install git-autofixup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git-autofixup
Install git-autofixup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install git-autofixup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install git-autofixup
Install git-autofixup Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install git-autofixup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install git-autofixup
How To Uninstall git-autofixup on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the git-autofixup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove git-autofixup
Uninstall git-autofixup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall git-autofixup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-autofixup
Remove git-autofixup Configurations and Data
To remove git-autofixup
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge git-autofixup
Remove git-autofixup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove git-autofixup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-autofixup
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-autofixup
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.