How to Install and Uninstall imediff Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "imediff" package

This is a short guide on how to install imediff on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                imediff
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "imediff" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall imediff on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                imediff
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the imediff package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: imediff
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Osamu Aoki
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 157
Provides: imediff2
Depends: python3:any, vim | emacs | editor
Recommends: git
Breaks: imediff2 (<< 1.1.2.1-3)
Replaces: imediff2 (<< 1.1.2.1-3)
Filename: pool/universe/i/imediff/imediff_2.2-1_all.deb
Size: 33960
MD5sum: 6dd29015f4f89e1db3eaa8f30ceb76a5
SHA1: 20d4bb9f6992ac4be8ec1a06afafa6f28e524f97
SHA256: d8784e2e5b893e65a653e339af9ffe74107186ec3bdb6f5864070e44cc124325
SHA512: 05191d7fa6a361890c70aed047404ff870662fde73a7d60a31415b179ee23a4fd515c02de50a26ab17a4bef9db653f19098c665ed77b0d11e40a57db125c0ac4
Homepage: https://github.com/osamuaoki/imediff
Description-en: interactive full screen 2/3-way merge tool
The imediff command helps you to merge 2 slightly different files with an
optional base file interactively using the in-place alternating display of
the changed content on a single-pane full screen terminal user interface.
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The source of line is clearly identified by the color of the line or the
identifier character at the first column.
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The advantage of this user interface is the minimal movement of the line of
sight for the user. Other great tools such as vimdiff, xxdiff, meld and
kdiff3 require you to look at different points of display to find the exact
position of changes. This makes imediff the most stress-free tool.
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Other great tools for merge such as "diff3 -m ..." and "git merge ..."
operate only on the difference by line. So even for the non-overlapping
changes, they yield the merge conflict if changes happen on the same line.
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The automatic merge logic of the imediff command operates not only on the
difference by line but on the difference by character. This is another
great feature of the imediff command. So for the non-overlapping changes, it
always yields the clean merge.
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This comes with git-ime script which helps you to split squished git commit
using imediff and with a support script to use imediff as the backend of
git-mergetool.
Description-md5: 7ab63c2e829e8327a7703707f1adef4a