Git Basics

Question 1

How to make a new directory?

Answer 1

mkdir directory

Question 2

How do you initalize a directory to git?

Answer 2

git init

Question 3

How to look at previous commits?

Answer 3

git log

Question 4

How to look at the latest git commit?

Answer 4

git log -1

Question 5

How to get the git commits compactly?

Answer 5

git log –oneline

Question 6

How to configurate the git?

Answer 6

git config

Question 7

How to create a new branch?

Answer 7

git branch new_branch

Question 8

How to switch branches?

Answer 8

git switch diff_branch

Question 9

How to switch and create a new branch?

Answer 9

git switch -c new_diff_branch

Question 10

How to merge to the main branch?

Answer 10

git merge the_branch

Question 11

How to delete a branch?

Answer 11

git branch -d add_classics

Question 12

How to go back to the previous commit?

Answer 12

git reset –soft COMMITHASH

Question 13

How to go to a previous commit and delete all the changes you made ahead of it?

Answer 13

git reset –hard COMMITHASH

Question 14

What is the origin repo called if you have multiple?

Answer 14

main

Question 15

How to ignore files so git doesn’t count them?

Answer 15

.gitignore

Question 16

How to merge the remote repo with the branch?

Answer 16

git merge remote/branch

Question 17

How to ignore all txt files?

Answer 17

*.txt

Question 18

What does !important.txt do in the .gitignore?

Answer 18

This isn’t ignored
- important.txt is not ignored

Question 19

What should be ignored?

Answer 19

• ignore dependencies, personal/specific things, passwords, things that can be generated