How To Install reposurgeon on Debian 10

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon on Debian 10.

What is reposurgeon

reposurgeon is:

reposurgeon enables risky operations that version-control systems don’t want to let you do, such as (a) editing past comments and metadata, (b) excising commits, (c) coalescing commits, and (d) removing files and subtrees from repo history. The original motivation for reposurgeon was to clean up artifacts created by repository conversions.

reposurgeon is also useful for scripting very high-quality conversions from Subversion. It is better than git-svn at tag lifting, automatically cleaning up cvs2svn conversion artifacts, dealing with nonstandard repository layouts, recognizing branch merges, handling mixed-branch commits, and generally at coping with Subversion’s many odd corner cases. Normally Subversion repos should be analyzed at a rate of upwards of ten thousand commits per minute, though that rate can fall significantly on extremely large repositories.

Another auxiliary program, repotool, performs various useful operations such as checkouts and tag listing in a VCS-independent manner. Yet another, repomapper, assists in automatically preparing contributor maps of CVS and SVN repositories.

The repocutter program is available for some specialized operations on Subversion dumpfiles; it may be useful in extracting portions of particularly gnarly Subversion repositories for conversion witth reposurgeon.

This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these tools, and includes the DVCS Migration Guide that describes how to use it.

There are three methods to install reposurgeon on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install reposurgeon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install reposurgeon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install reposurgeon

Install reposurgeon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install reposurgeon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install reposurgeon

Install reposurgeon 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 reposurgeon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install reposurgeon

How To Uninstall reposurgeon on Debian 10

To uninstall only the reposurgeon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove reposurgeon

Uninstall reposurgeon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall reposurgeon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove reposurgeon

Remove reposurgeon Configurations and Data

To remove reposurgeon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge reposurgeon

Remove reposurgeon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove reposurgeon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reposurgeon

Dependencies

reposurgeon have the following dependencies:

• pypy
• tzdata

References

• reposurgeon website
• reposurgeon on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.