Git Commands

Question 1

git log

Answer 1

Displays all the commits, history along with commit hash, who committed and the date and time of commit

Question 2

git log –oneline

Answer 2

Just shows commit hash and commit message

Question 3

git log –name-only

Answer 3

Shows git log information with list of files that were changed in that commit

Question 4

git log –author=’max’

Answer 4

list commits only from this author max

Question 5

git log -1

Answer 5

only list the last commit, the most latest one

Question 6

git checkout -b sarah

Answer 6

Create a new branch and checkout to that branch

Question 7

git checkout sarah

Answer 7

switch to an existing branch

Question 8

git branch -d max

Answer 8

To delete a branch

Question 9

git branch

Answer 9

Command to list all branches

Question 10

What is HEAD in git repository?

Answer 10

HEAD is where you are right now in the git reposito

Question 10

git log –graph –decorate

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to see the graphical view of how the branches were created like from which branch to which branch

Question 11

git remote add origin http://git.example.com/sarah/story-blog.git

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To add a remote repository for a local repository

Question 12

git push origin master

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to push your local repository changes to the origin which is your remote repository

Question 13

git pull origin master

Question 14

git fetch origin master

Question 15

git merge origin/master

Question 16

get rebase master

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If you are working in a branch and want to merge with master but if by that time the master branch had also been updated, we can rebase the master

Question 17

git rebase -i HEAD~4

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Interactively rebase last 4 commits

Question 18

git command to rebase last 4 commits. Like keep the first commit and merge the 3 after commits to the first one

Answer 18

Change the word to squash

Question 19

git cherry-pick <commit></commit>

Question 20

git reset –soft HEAD~1

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reset but still keep the changes that were made
1 is the number of commits you want to reset

Question 20

git revert <commit></commit>

Question 21

git reset –hard HEAD~1

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hard option to lose the chnages that were made on that commit
1 is the number of commits you want to reset

Question 22

git stash

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to stash changes within a branch temporarily

Question 23

git hash-object <first-story.txt></first-story.txt>

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to find the git hash of a file

Question 24

Use git cat-file command to view the contents of a commit

Answer 24

Question 25

You can also use git cat-file command to view the contents of a hash-object

Answer 25