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How do you set up global credentials for all repositories?

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git config –global user.name “Your Name”
git config –global user.email “you@example. com”

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What do you do if you want to start a new git repository?

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Navigate to your project directory and run:
git init

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Downloads a project with the entire history from the remote repository.

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git clone URL

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Displays the status of your working directory. Options include new, staged, and modified files.

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git status

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Add a file to the staging area. Use. in place of the full file path to add all changed files from the current directory down into the directory tree.

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git add [file]
or
git add .

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git commit -m “Message”

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Create a new commit from changes added to the staging area. The commit must have a message!

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Add a file to the staging area. Use . in place of the full file path to add all changed files from the current directory down into the directory tree.

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git add [file]
or
git add .

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Show changes between working directory and staging area.

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git diff [file]

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Shows any changes between the staging area and the repository.

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git diff –staged [file]

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Discard changes in working directory. This operation is unrecoverable.

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git checkout – [file]

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Revert some paths in the index (or the whole index) to their state in HEAD.

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git reset {<path>...]</path>

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Remove file from working directory and staging area.

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git rm [file]

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13
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How can you verify that the .git folder was created?

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ls -a

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How do you check if a folder is a git repository, if there are untracked files, staged files, or the working directory is clean?

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git status

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How do you remove git tracking from a project?

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rm -rf .git

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16
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Navigate to the home directory

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cd ~

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17
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navigate to the root directory

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cd /

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Move one level up in a directory tree

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cd ..

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19
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Show the current directory path

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pwd

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20
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List all files and directories in the current location

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ls

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21
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List all files including hidden files like .git

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ls -a

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22
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Clear the terminal screen

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clear

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23
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What are untracked files?

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Files not yet added to git

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What are files that have changes but are not yet staged?

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modified files

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What do you need to do before committing files?
Stage files
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How do you stage a file for the next commit
git add or git add . to stage all modified and new files in working directory
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What saves changes to the repository history?
commit git commit -m "added first test"
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what is -m
let's you add a commit message
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How do you check your saved user details?
git config --list
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What are the steps to pushing to a remote repository?
First commit changes Connect to repository git remote add origin https://github.com/username/repository.git Push your changes git push origin main Pull latest changes git pull origin main
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How do you connect to a remote repo
git remote add origin URL
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How do you push changes to a repo?
git push origin main
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Show commit history
git log
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List all branches
git branch
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Create and switch to a new branch
git checkout -b new-branch
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Merge a branch into the current one
git merge branch-name
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Undo the last commit (irreversable)
git reset --hard HEAD~1
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Clone a repository from remote repo
git clone URL
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What is the commit id?
The SHA hash
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I want to achieve this output. What do I type commit e6d1f80e3b68df1b68f56ad8b02df6712a9c6392 (HEAD -> main) Author: Your Name Date: Tue Mar 5 14:30:00 2024
git log
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What are the steps to creating and committing a new file?
Create file touch file.txt stage the file git add file.txt check the status git status Commit the changes commit -m "added new file.txt"
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How do you switch to an older version of a project
git checkout
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What is the commit id or SHA?
It is a unique ID assigned to every commit. It allows you to switch to older versions.
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What is the detached head state?
Can be accessed with git checkout While in detached HEAD state, you can view past commit, but changes won't be tracked unless create a new branch
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Working directory
The actual files and folders you see in your directory
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Staging area
Files added with git add, ready for comit
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Repository
.git folder, the full commit history with tracked changes and branches
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Branches
Independent lines of development in a Git repo
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List all branches
git branch
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Create a new branch
git branch
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Switch to a branch
git checkout
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Create a new branch and switch to it shortcut
git checkout -b
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Confirm branch name
git branch
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How do you view a compact commit history
git log --oneline
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What is HEAD
The head is the pointer that always refres to the latest commit in the current branch. - Always points to the **latest commit** of the active branch. - Moves forward automatically with each new commit. - Can be **manually changed** to point to a different commit.
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Explain this output: Output: ``` e6d1f80 (HEAD -> third-branch) Added new feature a7c3d21 (main) Updated README d2b1234 Initial commit
🔹 Here, **`HEAD -> third-branch`** means that: - `HEAD` is pointing to **`third-branch`**. - The latest commit in `third-branch` is `e6d1f80`.
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What is a Detached Head?
happens when you manually checkout a specific commit **instead of a branch**. `HEAD` will be detached because it's pointing **directly to a commit**, not a branch. -used for checking out an old commit for debugging -can create commits, but changes will be lost unless a new branch is created
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How do you enter detached Head state?
git checkout ``` 📌 **Example:** git checkout a7c3d21 📌 **Confirm detached state:** git status Output: HEAD detached at a7c3d21
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How do you prevent from losing changes in detached head state?
git checkout -b new-branch will create a new branch so can continue working without losing changes
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Exit detached Head and return to a branch
git checkout main this restores Head to its normal state
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How do you show the HEAD location?
git log --oneline --decorate
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T or F: git switch will create a new branch
False. Must use git switch -c new-branch -c will create the new branch.
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list all tracked files
git ls-files
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remove files
git rm filename.txt
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How do you undo unstaged changes
git checkout -- git checkout -- filename.txt or git restore .
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Reset all unstaged changes in the current branch
git checkout .
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Remove untracked files, deleting files without actually deleting them
git clean -dn d - removes directories n - no execution (dry-run)
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Forces deletion without confirmation
git clean -df
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Undoing staged changes
git reset filename.txt Moves the file out of staging and back to modfied state.
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What does git reset do?
git reset: moves the branch HEAD backwards to undo commits
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Undo the last commit but keeps changes staged
git reset --soft HEAD~# (# represents 1,2,3 etc.)
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Undo last commit and unstage files
git reset HEAD~# (# represents 1,2,3 etc.)
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Completely remove last commit and file changes
git reset --hard HEAD~# (# represents 1,2,3 etc.)
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Delete branches
git branch -d branch-name
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Force delete of a branch
git branch -D branch-name or git branch -D branch1 branch2
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Steps to making and commiting in detached HEAD state
git checkout git add . git commit -m "Changes made in detached HEAD" git branch branch-name or git switch branch-name git checkout main git merge branch-name
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What is .gitignore?
- a file that prevents specific files from being tracked by Git. - Useful for **logs, system files, API keys, build files**. - list all of the files to ignore inside the .gitignore
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Create a .gitignore File
touch .gitignore
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Common ways to list files in .gitignore
Ignore all log files *.log # Ignore all files in the `node_modules` directory node_modules/ # Ignore all files in `temp/` except `temp/keep.txt` temp/*
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How do you create a Global .gitignore?
If you want **all repositories** to use the same ignore rules: git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global Then create the file: touch ~/.gitignore_global

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