How To Install git-publish on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-publish on CentOS 8.
What is git-publish
git-publish handles repetitive and time-consuming details of managing patch email submission. It works with individual patches as well as patch series and has support for pull request emails. Each revision is stored as a git tag including the cover letter (if any). This makes it easy to refer back to previous revisions of a patch. Numbering is handled automatically and the To revisions to save you retyping them. Many projects have conventions for submitting patches. It is possible to encode them as a .gitpublish file and hooks/ scripts. This automatically uses the right settings and can run a coding style checker or linting tools before emails are sent.
We can use yum or dnf to install git-publish on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-publish.
Install git-publish 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-publish using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install git-publish
Install git-publish 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-publish using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install git-publish
How To Uninstall git-publish on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the git-publish package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove git-publish
git-publish Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/git-publish
/usr/share/git-publish/hooks/pre-publish-send-email.example
/usr/share/licenses/git-publish
/usr/share/licenses/git-publish/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/git-publish.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-publish on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.