General

Question 1

What is git?

Answer 1

Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) that allows multiple developers or other contributors to work on a project.

Question 2

What is GitHub?

Answer 2

GitHub is a cloud platform that uses Git as its core technology. It simplifies the process of collaborating on projects and provides a website, command-line tools, and overall flow that allows developers and users to work together.

Question 3

What is a repository?

Answer 3

It is a project

Question 4

What is the ‘cd’ command?

Answer 4

It is a change directory command

Question 5

What is the ‘ls’ command

Answer 5

It will show the listing of all the files in the directory

Question 6

What is the clone command?

Answer 6

It a command that copies the repository and put it in a folder called its name

Question 7

What are the main command on git hub?

Answer 7

Git status
Git add
Git commit
Git push 
Git pull

Question 8

What is the terminal?

Answer 8

It is a place where to type commands that cause actions

Question 9

What is a CUI

Answer 9

Command User Interface

Question 10

What does the command PWD do?

Answer 10

It shows the path to the folder you are currently in.

Question 11

What does the command ‘mkdir’ do?

Answer 11

It creates a folder

Question 12

What is the command ‘cd’?

Answer 12

Change directory command

Question 13

What is the command to create new file?

Answer 13

‘Touch’ name.html

Question 14

What does commit do?

Answer 14

It takes a snapshot of the current code

Question 15

What is the ‘git init’ command for?

Answer 15

It is for creating a folder to hold all the commit

Question 16

What is the ‘git status’?

Answer 16

It is a command that let you see all the files that are waiting in the “the staging are” before being committed

Question 17

What is the git branch command for?

Answer 17

It shows you in what branch you are currently working

Question 18

How do you create a new branch?

Answer 18

git branch name-of-new-branch

Question 19

How do you move to a different branch

Answer 19

git checkout name-of-branch

Question 20

git pull?

Answer 20

It ‘pulls’ all the your updates from master to your branch