How To Install git-absorb on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-absorb
on Debian 12.
What is git-absorb
git-absorb is:
git-absorb is a port of hg absorb to Git.
git absorb automatically identifies which commits are safe to modify, and which indexed changes belong to each of those commits. It then writes fixup! commits for each of those changes. These fixups can later be folded into the feature branch with Git’s built-in autosquash functionality.
There are three methods to install git-absorb
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install git-absorb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install git-absorb
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git-absorb
Install git-absorb Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install git-absorb
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install git-absorb
Install git-absorb Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install git-absorb
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install git-absorb
How To Uninstall git-absorb on Debian 12
To uninstall only the git-absorb
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove git-absorb
Uninstall git-absorb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall git-absorb
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-absorb
Remove git-absorb Configurations and Data
To remove git-absorb
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge git-absorb
Remove git-absorb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove git-absorb
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-absorb
Dependencies
git-absorb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-absorb
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.