Delta: Add MacPorts to README if it becomes available there

[FranklinYu]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-delta/

I can help pushing MacPorts packages.

[dandavison]

Sure! Would you be able to propose the correct text for the README? Currently the relevant section reads

Installation

Executables: Linux | MacOS | Windows | All

Homebrew:

brew install git-delta

FreeBSD pkg(8):

pkg install git-delta

[FranklinYu]

I frankly don’t have much idea how it looks best. If this project keep going, people would want it to be in different distributions. We already have Homebrew, FreeBSD and AUR (which might eventually go to main Arch Linux distribution), with MacPorts to come (I created a request-to-package). I see that you are also providing .deb file, is it for Debian or Ubuntu?

If we make this package easier to consume, maybe it would reach popularity of exa.

Last, thanks for this nice project!

[dandavison]

Yes, I'm on board with making it available as conveniently as possible and making the README informative about that.

mention package in AUR?

In the README, what should the text say for AUR? Should it give a pacman command, or should it just link to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-delta/?

with MacPorts to come (I created a request-to-package).

Great, thanks!

I see that you are also providing .deb file, is it for Debian or Ubuntu?

To be honest I thought .deb worked on both Debian and Ubuntu.

[Kr1ss-XD]

Hi, AUR package maintainer here.

In the README, what should the text say for AUR?

I'd suggest the following :

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Archlinux (AUR):

• using yay (or accordingly other AUR helpers)

yay -S git-delta

• without an AUR helper (make sure git is installed first)

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/git-delta.git
cd git-delta
makepkg -csri

---

_Thanks a lot !_

[dandavison]

Thanks, I've added those AUR instructions to the README. I'll leave this open to track the MacPorts thread.

[FranklinYu]

To be honest I thought .deb worked on both Debian and Ubuntu.

@dandavison Yes, as long as you don't fix version of your dependencies (some package in Ubuntu get some special patch so they add something to the version string).

[dandavison]

https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/6963

[herbygillot]

Delta is now in MacPorts. Install steps:

sudo port selfupdate
sudo port install git-delta

[dandavison]

Cool, thanks @herbygillot.