How to Install and Uninstall reposurgeon Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "reposurgeon" package

This is a short guide on how to install reposurgeon on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install reposurgeon

2. Uninstall "reposurgeon" package

Learn how to uninstall reposurgeon on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):

$ sudo apt remove reposurgeon $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the reposurgeon package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: reposurgeon
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.25-1
Built-Using: golang-1.16 (= 1.16.2-0ubuntu1), golang-github-anmitsu-go-shlex (= 0.0~git20200514.38f4b40-1), golang-github-chzyer-readline (= 1.4.39.g2972be2-1), golang-github-emirpasic-gods (= 1.12.0-2), golang-github-kballard-go-shellquote (= 0.0~git20180428.95032a8-1), golang-github-xo-terminfo (= 0.0~git20210125.ca9a967-1), golang-go.crypto (= 1:0.0~git20201221.eec23a3-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.0~git20210124.22da62e-1), golang-golang-x-term (= 0.0~git20201210.2321bbc-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.3.5-1)
Priority: optional
Section: universe/vcs
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 16958
Depends: tzdata, libc6 (>= 2.32)
Recommends: cvs, cvs-fast-export, git, subversion
Suggests: brz, darcs, fossil, hg-fast-export
Filename: pool/universe/r/reposurgeon/reposurgeon_4.25-1_amd64.deb
Size: 4169040
MD5sum: 609cb78bb9a12e04da67f9a5da8cbd40
SHA1: 4ae97397b2afc5d1f6d3b7503a63798b9d5e41fa
SHA256: 900b142512ca97a780f6df24d218b056be128ab78af0535461652a9a4173c3a2
SHA512: 7444d64849e42bc6805e4bcb7cc1c82cdd3768aac9f759df6676d65d1ec049d8d747eaca39576c8fc96f9d48356472c2e9d86b5852a7b54c2a064802355ac978
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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An 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 with
reposurgeon.
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This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these
tools, and includes a long-form manual "Repository Editing and
Conversion With Reposurgeon" that describes how to use it.
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The file `reposurgeon-git-aliases` can be appended to your `~/.gitconfig` to
support working directly with action stamps in git.
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Finally, an Emacs Lisp mode with useful functions for editing large
comment message-boxes is included.
Description-md5: 1b46c082d5403c85905efc120cbb2e94