How To Install reposurgeon on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon on Debian 12.
What is reposurgeon
reposurgeon is:
reposurgeonenables 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 forreposurgeonwas 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.
An 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 with
reposurgeon.
This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these tools, and includes a long-form manual “Repository Editing and Conversion With Reposurgeon” that describes how to use it.
The file reposurgeon-git-aliases can be appended to your ~/.gitconfig to
support working directly with action stamps in git.
Finally, an Emacs Lisp mode with useful functions for editing large comment message-boxes is included.
There are three methods to install reposurgeon 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 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 12
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 12, 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 12 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:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
