How To Install reposurgeon on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon on Ubuntu 18.04.
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.
repodiffer is a program that reports differences between repository
histories. It uses a diff(1)-like algorithm to identify spans of
identical revisions, and to pick out revisions that have been
changed or deleted or inserted. It may be useful for comparing the
output of different repository-conversion tools in detail.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reposurgeon
Remove reposurgeon Configurations and Data
To remove reposurgeon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
