How To Install git-review on CentOS 8

git-review is A Git helper for integration with Gerrit

Introduction

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

What is git-review

An extension for source control system Git that creates and manages review requests in the patch management system Gerrit. It replaces the rfc.sh script.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install git-review

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

sudo yum -y install git-review

How To Uninstall git-review on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove git-review

git-review Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/git-review
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/pbr.json
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review-1.28.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/__pycache__/cmd.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/cmd.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/check_test_id_hashes.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/check_test_id_hashes.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/prepare.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/prepare.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/test_git_review.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/test_git_review.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/test_unit.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/test_unit.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/check_test_id_hashes.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/prepare.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/test_git_review.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/test_unit.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/git_review/tests/utils.py
/usr/share/doc/git-review
/usr/share/doc/git-review/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/git-review/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/git-review
/usr/share/licenses/git-review/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/git-review.1.gz

References

Summary

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