How To Install git-cvs on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-cvs on Ubuntu 20.04. git-cvs is fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (cvs interoperability) fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (cvs interoperability)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-cvs on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is git-cvs

git-cvs is:

Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.

This package provides the git cvsimport, cvsexportcommit, and cvsserver tools, which allow Git to read from and write to CVS repositories and offer access over CVS protocol to Git repositories.

The git cvsimport tool can incrementally import from a repository that is being actively developed and only requires remote access over CVS protocol. Unfortunately, in many situations the import leads to incorrect results. For reliable, one-shot imports, cvs2git from the cvs2svn package or parsecvs may be a better fit.

Package: git-cvs Architecture: all Version: 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Source: git Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1233 Depends: git (» 1:2.25.1), git (« 1:2.25.1-.), cvsps, libdbd-sqlite3-perl Suggests: git-doc, cvs Filename: pool/universe/g/git/git-cvs_2.25.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 69628 MD5sum: 31eb5f61fe5fefc59ed843003a8fc042 SHA1: 7ba466ccbcb98fa4f6ed319f22e4fa31c2d23550 SHA256: a6bf09859c5e0b4a881e0b2d5571da0c7a19afc06ce76a90ab6e7d25c366e299 Homepage: https://git-scm.com/ Description-en: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (cvs interoperability) Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.

This package provides the git cvsimport, cvsexportcommit, and cvsserver tools, which allow Git to read from and write to CVS repositories and offer access over CVS protocol to Git repositories.

The git cvsimport tool can incrementally import from a repository that is being actively developed and only requires remote access over CVS protocol. Unfortunately, in many situations the import leads to incorrect results. For reliable, one-shot imports, cvs2git from the cvs2svn package or parsecvs may be a better fit.

There are three methods to install git-cvs on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install git-cvs 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-cvs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install git-cvs

Install git-cvs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install git-cvs

Install git-cvs 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 git-cvs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install git-cvs

How To Uninstall git-cvs on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove git-cvs

Uninstall git-cvs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall git-cvs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-cvs

Remove git-cvs Configurations and Data

To remove git-cvs configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge git-cvs

Remove git-cvs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-cvs

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-cvs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.