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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "reposurgeon" package

Please follow the instructions below to install reposurgeon on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

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


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

Package: reposurgeon
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.4-1
Built-Using: golang-1.14 (= 1.14.2-1ubuntu1), golang-github-anmitsu-go-shlex (= 0.0~git20161002.648efa6-2), golang-github-emirpasic-gods (= 1.12.0-2), golang-go.crypto (= 1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.0~git20200219.cb0a6d8-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.3.2-4)
Priority: optional
Section: universe/vcs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Anthony Fok
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 15560
Depends: tzdata, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.4)
Recommends: cvs-fast-export, git
Suggests: brz, darcs, fossil, hg-fast-export, subversion
Filename: pool/universe/r/reposurgeon/reposurgeon_4.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 4121028
MD5sum: 9a1f3a3dd3562805a15bb4f8f9daed53
SHA1: 921307f971375874888e157ac151a34cbdf98cbd
SHA256: 676a321c4c25bf53e6afbb0fbed140bb4f4fb3a31063773c1372cb5f6e08e7f3
SHA512: 1292bf16824225eef78a25ddbaaed38c6f43c8486980de7b59627660d41f424d7606fab478853915a586fc2fe3ada0fc73bde0a0714095d1716b59e23581d166
Homepage: http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/
Description-en: Tool for editing version-control repository history
`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.
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`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.
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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.
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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.
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This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these
tools, and includes the DVCS Migration Guide that describes how to use it.
Description-md5: a8314666f689b6a68559123cd1263bfa