How To Install git-publish on CentOS 8

git-publish is Prepare and store patch revisions as git tags

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.