Domain 1: Intro to GitHub - Deck 3

Question 1

Alpha: 4 ways GitHub makes collaboration between multi developers more efficient..

Answer 1

access control, issue tracking and reporting, management, messaging

Question 2

What are 3 states that a file moves through.. alpha

Answer 2

committed modified staged

Question 2

The ______ ____ command creates a new Git repository.

It can be used to convert an existing, unversioned project to a Git repository or initialize a new, empty repository. Most other Git commands are not available outside of an initialized repository, so this is usually the first command you’ll run in a new project.

Answer 2

git init

Question 3

Git knows your file exists and it has added it to a commit.

A. Committed

B. Modified

C. Staged

Answer 3

a

Question 3

Git creates a hidden folder called _____ and stores references and commits for this repository in it.

Answer 3

.git

The .git folder contains three main types of objects: commits, trees, and blobs. Commits store information about who made a change and when they made it. Trees store information about the structure of the files in a project and blobs store the actual content of the files in a project.

Question 3

Git knows your file exists and it is part of a commit. However, it also knows you’ve modified the file since the last committed.

A. Committed

B. Modified

C. Staged

Answer 3

b

Question 4

Git is tracking your file to add it to the next commit.

A. Committed

B. Modified

C. Staged

Answer 4

c

Question 5

These are new files that have been created but are not part of any commits yet.

A. tracked

B. untracked

c. git commit

d. git add

Answer 5

b

Question 6

For Git to track a file, you’ll need to tell it to do so by using the ___ _____command.

A. git push

B. git touch

C. git commit

D. git add

Answer 6

d

Question 7

$ touch breakfast.txt

run code so Git tracks this new file

$…

Answer 7

git add breakfast.txt

Question 8

The ___ ____ is a place where all changes are held to be committed at the same time.

Answer 8

staging area

Question 9

____ allow us to work on a feature while giving us the opportunity to keep or discard our work later on.

Answer 9

branches

Question 10

is similar to the Linux rm command. This command deletes or removes a file from

Answer 10

git rm

Question 11

is similar to the Linux mv command. This command can move or rename a file, directory, or symlink

Answer 11

git mv

Question 12

allows a user to interactively review patches before adding to the current commit

Answer 12

git add -p

Question 13

is an alias of $ git diff –cached, which shows all staged files compared to the named commit

Answer 13

git diff –staged

Question 14

is similar to the Linux diff command, and can show the changes between commits, changes between the working tree and index, changes between two trees, changes from a merge, and so on.

Answer 14

git diff

Question 15

shows you one or more object(s) such as blobs, trees, tags, and commits

Answer 15

git show

Question 16

produces patch text. A patch file is used to share your local changes with others without pushing your changes to the main branch of the repo.

Answer 16

git log -p

Question 17

automatically stages and commits the files that have been locally modified. New files which have not been published yet are not affected

Answer 17

git commit -a