How To Install git-octopus on CentOS 8

git-octopus is Git commands for continuous delivery

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-octopus on CentOS 8.

What is git-octopus

The continuous merge workflow is meant for continuous integration/delivery and is based on feature branching. git-octopus provides git commands to implement it.

We can use yum or dnf to install git-octopus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-octopus.

Install git-octopus 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-octopus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install git-octopus

Install git-octopus 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-octopus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install git-octopus

How To Uninstall git-octopus on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the git-octopus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove git-octopus

git-octopus Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/git-octopus
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6d/5f8726a5776bd2a9590291a3bd75a4ba7cde97
/usr/share/doc/git-octopus
/usr/share/doc/git-octopus/README.md
/usr/share/doc/git-octopus/git-conflict.html
/usr/share/doc/git-octopus/git-octopus.html
/usr/share/licenses/git-octopus
/usr/share/licenses/git-octopus/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/git-conflict.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-octopus.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-octopus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.