Remote Repositories

Question 1

What is a connection string in git in regards to remote repositories?

Answer 1

A connection string is a URL that we can use to let Git know where the remote repository is located.

Question 2

Commonly used platforms for maintaining remote repositeries?

Answer 2

Gitlab
BitBucket
Github

Question 3

How to add your remote repository to your local repository?

Answer 3

Using the “git remote add origin https://xxxx.com”, origin is like a name for the remote repo

Question 4

command to list all your remote repositories

Answer 4

git remote -v
You can have more than one remote repo

Question 5

command to push a branch to remote repository

Answer 5

git push origin master
origin - is the pointer to the url of your remote repository
master - is the name of the branch you want to push to remote repo

Question 6

Command to clone a repository

Answer 6

git clone [ssh link]

Question 7

What is a pull request or PR?

Answer 7

It is when say you have pushed your changes to a branch called sarah, and the master branch is one commit behind Sarah, then you can open a pull request or PR, to merge the changes into the master branch

Question 8

How to update your local master branch with the changes that have been pushed to the remote master branch?

Answer 8

git fetch origin master –> First we fetch all the changes from our remote repo
git merge origin/master – > Now we merge the origin master branch into the local master branch

Question 9

Command to view all the branches both remote and local?

Answer 9

git branch -a