Git

Question 1

git init

Answer 1

initialize a new Git repo

Question 2

git status

Answer 2

find out the current state of the repo

Question 3

git commit

Answer 3

take a snapshot of the repo at a certain time

Question 4

git add

Answer 4

stage new or changed files

Question 5

git diff

Answer 5

see what has changed in a repo since the last commit

Question 6

git reset

Answer 6

reset repo to a prior stat

Question 7

git checkout

Answer 7

look at the prior state of the repo and switch branches

Question 8

git branch

Answer 8

create a new branch

Question 9

git merge

Answer 9

merges branches

Question 10

git checkout -b

Answer 10

create and go to a new branch

Question 11

git branch -a

Answer 11

get a list of all the branches in the local repo

Question 12

git branch -D

Answer 12

delete a branch

Question 13

git commit -a

Answer 13

• a switch with the ‘commit’ command to automatically:
  
  1. “add” changes from all known files (i.e. all files that are already listed in the index)
     
     2. automatically “rm” files in the index that have been removed from the working tree
     3. perform the actual commit;

Question 14

git commit -m

Answer 14

commit and add comment ‘COMMENT’

Question 15

git log

Answer 15

shows the commit logs

Question 16

git merge –no-ff

Answer 16

merges the branch to the master and keeps the merge history

Question 17

git merge

Answer 17

merges the branch to the master

Question 18

git add .

Answer 18

adds (stages) all the files in the current directory

Question 19

echo “console.log(‘foo’)”&raquo_space; foo.js

Answer 19

create a new file called foo.js in the current directory, with the single JavaScript command console.log(‘foo’) in it.

Question 20

HEAD

Answer 20

a variable that points to a commit