Rewritting Git History

Question 1

git commit –amend

Answer 1

Replace the last commit with the staged changes and last commit combined. Use with nothing staged to edit the last commit’s message.

Question 2

git rebase

Answer 2

Rebase the current branch onto . can be a commit ID, a branch name, a tag, or a relative reference to HEAD.

Question 3

git reflog

Answer 3

Show a log of changes to the local repository’s HEAD. Add –relative- date flag to show date info or –all to show all refs.

Question 4

git branch

Answer 4

List all of the branches in your repo. Add a argument to create a new branch with the name .

Question 5

git checkout -b

Answer 5

Create and check out a new branch named . Drop the -b flag to checkout an existing branch.

Question 6

git merge

Answer 6

Merge into the current branch.