How To Install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8.
What is git-merge-changelog
Git Merge Changelog is a git merge driver for changelogs that combines parallel additions to the changelog without generating merge conflicts. It can be enabled for specific files by setting appropriate git attributes.
We can use yum or dnf to install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-merge-changelog.
Install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install git-merge-changelog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install git-merge-changelog
Install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install git-merge-changelog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install git-merge-changelog
How To Uninstall git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the git-merge-changelog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove git-merge-changelog
git-merge-changelog Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/git-merge-changelog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/0cfe50453f866a7ef971157ad43f663a571548
/usr/share/licenses/git-merge-changelog
/usr/share/licenses/git-merge-changelog/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/man/man1/git-merge-changelog.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-merge-changelog on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
