GIT

Question 1

How to discover which files have been changed since the last save?

Answer 1

git status

Question 2

How to see what changes have been made to the files?

Answer 2

git diff

Question 3

How to see which changes have been made to a specific file in a git directory?

Answer 3

git diff data/test.py

Question 4

How to add a file to the staging area?

Answer 4

git add test.py

Question 5

How to compare the state of files with those in the staging area?

Answer 5

git diff -r HEAD

Question 6

How to commit with a message?

Answer 6

git commit -m “message”

Question 7

How to see the git log of only one file?

Answer 7

git log filepath

Question 8

How to see all changes in a specific file?

Answer 8

git annotate report.txt

Question 9

How to remove an untracked file?

Answer 9

git clean -f filename

Question 10

How to stage a file?

Answer 10

git add path/to/file

Question 11

How to unstage a file?

Answer 11

git reset HEAD

Question 12

How to undo changes that weren’t staged yet?

Answer 12

git checkout path/to/file

Question 13

How to unstage a file?

Answer 13

git reset path/to/file

Question 14

How to list the last two changes of a file?

Answer 14

git log -2 path/to/file

Question 15

How to restore a certain version of a file?

Answer 15

git checkout [first few has values] path/to/file

Question 16

How to show updated content, e.g. after a file has been restored?

Answer 16

cat path/to/file

Question 17

How to remove all files from the staging area?

Answer 17

git reset

Question 18

How to put back all files in their previous state? And with a command that means “all of the files in or below this directory”?

Answer 18

git checkout – .

Question 19

How to list all of the branches in a repository?

Answer 19

git branch

Question 20

How to switch to a branch?

Answer 20

git checkout [name of branch]

Question 21

How to delete a file in a branch?

Answer 21

git rm path/to/file

Question 22

How to create a new branch?

Answer 22

git checkout -b [name of new branch]

Question 23

How to merge two branches?

Answer 23

git merge [source branch] [destination branch]

Question 24

How to create a new repository?

Answer 24

git init [name]

Question 25

If you are in a directory that is not a git repository yet - how to convert it?

Answer 25

git init

Question 26

How to clone a repository into a new repository?

Answer 26

git clone [source path] [destination path]

Question 27

If you are in a repository how find out the number of remotes?

Answer 27

git remote

Question 28

After cloning a repository - how can more remotes be added?

Answer 28

git remote add [remote-name] URL

Question 29

How to remove existing remotes?

Answer 29

git remote rm [remote-name]

Question 30

How to pull in changes from a remote repository?

Answer 30

git pull [remote] [branch]