Commands

Question 1

Configure your username and email

Answer 1

git config –global user.name “Your name”

git config –global user.email “yourname@provider.com”

Question 2

View git configurations

Answer 2

git config –list

Question 3

How to initialize a repository

Answer 3

Create a folder and repository on GitHub and open the folder in the Terminal and use the command “git init”

Question 4

instruct Git to link it with the remote repository

Answer 4

git remote add origin repo-url

Question 5

If your remote repository already contains some code files, then you need to pull them inside your local repository

Answer 5

git pull

Question 6

git init + git remote add origin repo-url + git pull

Answer 6

git clone repo-url [folder]

Question 7

verify if a local repository is tracking the remote repository

Answer 7

git remote -v

Question 8

replace the remote url

Answer 8

git remote set-url origin repo-url

Question 9

This file contains files and folder names that should be ignored by Git while making commits.

Answer 9

.gitignore

Question 10

move these files to the staging area

Answer 10

git add . || git add [filename] || git add -A || git add *

Question 11

If you added some files in the staging area by mistake, then you can use the following command to unstage them

Answer 11

git reset [filename]

Question 12

To create a commit, use the following command.

Answer 12

git commit -m “initial commit”

Question 13

flag is used to insert a message that will describe the commit.

Answer 13

-m

Question 14

All files shows _____ mode which means there are all new file.

Answer 14

create

Question 15

To see all the commits in the repository (made by all the developers), use following command.

Answer 15

git log

Question 16

To see file that was changed or added in a commit

Answer 16

git log –stat

Question 17

To change the message of the previous commit

Answer 17

git commit –amend -m “Initial Commit”

Question 18

You can avoid edit message dialog

Answer 18

git commit –amend –no-edit

Question 19

to write and exit the vim editor

Answer 19

ESC + :wq

Question 20

push that commit to the remote repository.

Answer 20

git push -u origin master

Question 21

forget if commits after that ever existed

Answer 21

git reset –soft #
git reset –mixed #
git reset –hard #

Question 22

You can use git ____ to see what code changes between the current state of the files and the state of the files in the previous commit.

Answer 22

diff

Question 23

will set state of the above file to state of file in HEAD commit

Answer 23

git checkout – [filename]

Question 24

If you have lots of untracked files or folders in the repository which you want to remove

Answer 24

git clean -f -d

Question 25

create a branch with the name

Answer 25

git branch
git branch [name]
git checkout [branch name]

Question 26

To check all local and remote branches

Answer 26

git branch -a

Question 27

to update your remote-tracking branches

Answer 27

git fetch

Question 28

If a remote branch already exists with a different name than you want to track with the current branch, then use command

Answer 28

git branch –set-upstream-to origin/dev_uday

Question 29

command will create [branch name] branch on remote repository and our local branch will track it

Answer 29

git push -u origin [branch name]

Question 30

switch to master [Head]

Answer 30

git checkout master

Question 31

we must pull code from the remote repository before doing anything, always do this.

Answer 31

git pull

git branch –merged

Question 32

following command will merge the branch with the current branch.

Answer 32

git merge [branch name]

Question 33

verify merger by executing

Answer 33

git branch –merged

Question 34

If we are done with branch and we don’t need it anymore, then we can just delete it using the command below. This will delete local branch only.

Answer 34

git branch -d [branch name]

Question 35

To delete remote dev branch as well, you need to use the command

Answer 35

git push –delete origin [branch name]