git-autofixup command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

git-autofixup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-autofixup: command not found

Solutions to git-autofixup: command not found

How To Fix git-autofixup: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-autofixup is provided by git-autofixup package.

git-autofixup is:

git-autofixup creates fixup commits from changes in the worktree. This can save the tedious work of amending fixes into the appropriate commits during codereview.

Changes to consider are parsed out of git-diff(1) and git-blame(1) is used to assign hunks to commits since the revision given on the commandline, which will typically represent a topic branch. Then it creates fixup commits to be used with git rebase –autosquash.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install git-autofixup

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install git-autofixup.

sudo apt -y install git-autofixup

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install git-autofixup

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix git-autofixup command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.