Git and GitHub

Question 1

Search query in GitHub

Answer 1

dotnet stars:> 1000

searches for the word dotnet where the project received more than 1000 stars

dotnet NOT “hello world”

word dotnet and not contain “hello world”

Question 2

Download recent changes to the repo OR add the missing branches

Answer 2

git fetch

Question 3

Download recent changes to the repo AND merge the changes

Answer 3

git pull

Question 4

File that will make sure that the changes are reviewed before they are implemented

Answer 4

CODEOWNERS

Inside the file do:
@kristina-abrahamyan

Question 5

Collaborator vs Contributor

Answer 5

Collaborator can edit the code.

Contributor can only create requests that will need to be reviewed before the code is allowed to be edited.

Question 6

Create a new branch

Answer 6

git branch [branch-name]

Question 7

To switch to a local branch

Answer 7

git checkout -b [branch-name]

if the branch already exists, we are simply switching to it, if not, git creates this new branch

Question 8

Pushing to the GitHub the newly created branch.
The new branch created through Git is only stored locally until it’s pushed to GitHub through this way.

Answer 8

git push -u origin [branch-name-chosen-locally]

Question 9

When a merging issue arises

Answer 9

1. git push
2. git pull
3. code changed_file.py
4. delete the version we don’t like + save the file and close it in the editor
5. git commit -am “resolved merge conflict”
6. git push

Question 10

File name to put that info in the description part of the Pull Request (PR), i.e. the template for the PR

Answer 10

pull_request_template.md

Question 11

Forks in GitHub

Answer 11

Copy of the existing repo.

Forking is available to anyone.
Forks are not available in Git.

Fork creates your own personal repository, so when you make changes and push them, they are pushed to this forked repo.

When you think that the changes are worth being mentioned in the upstream/original repository, you can create a PR (pull request).

Question 12

Looking through the history of commits using Git

Answer 12

git log

To exit, use –> q

git log –oneline –graph –decorate –all

Question 13

To see the tags associated with commits

Answer 13

git tag

Question 14

Create a tag that points to repo main

Answer 14

git tag stable main

Question 15

Create an annotated tag pointing to a specific commit done before

Answer 15

git tag -a v0.1 -m “0.1 Release” 0eff960

Question 16

Push the new tags to the GitHub

Answer 16

git push –tags

Question 18

GitHub Action

Answer 18

When an event occurs it triggers a workflow.
Workflow contains several jobs.
Runner wraps in itself the workflow and it is a server that runs the automation code.
The smallest unit is action - it is created using YAML.