How to Install and Uninstall imediff Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "imediff" package

Please follow the instructions below to install imediff on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install imediff

2. Uninstall "imediff" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall imediff on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):

$ sudo apt remove imediff $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the imediff package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: imediff
Architecture: all
Version: 2.2-1.1
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_2.2-1.1_all.deb
Size: 34192
MD5sum: 779addfd913b128d570aa93e2a3d0e0f
SHA1: 7e83a036cf81b640a30018f3a2760c196968d415
SHA256: ecaa1f6ed5dffbbfe84f97d3808e621c5490751deaf7c0ab44a2411cd69065e7
SHA512: d21d82681c5b2f0f5f23bca11310c77170f7f80bdfbeebe0b35af3e589a258bcab25c017a20c310672557af0bda9c8ab8f585171b9499edb5388d58ae870c36b
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