learn-co-curriculum / phrg-advanced-git-quiz

Quiz on git commands covered in final weeks of PCA

Objectives

• Test your understanding of git commands

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Git Quiz

?: Which of the following is the correct way to initialize a new Git repository?

( )git add . (X)git init ( )git commit

?: Which of the following commands will create a new branch called brand_new and also check it out?

( )git branch brand_new ( )git checkout brand_new (X)git checkout -b brand_new

?: Which of the following commands will delete the branch brand_new

(X)git branch -d brand_new ( )git delete brand_new

?: How do you check the state of your local git repository since your last commit?

(X)git status ( )git commit ( )git diff ( )git check

?: How do you check the untracked differences within your local git repository?

( )git status ( )git commit (X)git diff ( )git check

?: You can type git status at any point while in a git controlled directory to check the status of your files.

(X)True ( )False

?: Which of the following commands will stage your entire directory and every non-empty directory inside your current directory?

( )git status all ( )git commit all (X)git add .

?: We've just created a new file called index.html. Which of the following will stage this one file so we can commit it?

(X)git add index.html ( )git add new ( )git commit index.html

?: We've made many changes to the index.html but only want to stage some lines towards the middle of the file. Which of the following commands will enable you to partially stage your changes?

( )git commit -p index.html ( )git add . index.html ( )git add -m index.html (X)git add -p index.html ( )git commit --partial-staging index.html

?: git status returns:

On branch master

Initial commit

Changes to be committed:
  (use "git rm --cached <file>..." to unstage)

  new file:   index.html

How would you commit this with the subject "Add index.html" and a description of "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters."

( )git commit -m "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters." "Add index.html" ( )git commit -m "Add index.html" "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters." ( )git commit -m "Add index.html" -p "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters." (X)git commit -m "Add index.html" -m "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters." ( )git commit -m "Add index.html" & "I ran into some complications listing authors and instead am listing copywriters."

?: What's the git command that downloads your repository from GitHub to your computer?

( )git push ( )git fork (X)git clone ( )git commit

?: How do you create a copy of a lab under your own GitHub account?

( )git fork ( )git clone ( )git pull-request (X) Forking it via the GitHub interface.

?: What command would you use to add more staged changes into your last commit?

( )git add --amend (X)git commit --amend ( )git add --more ( )git commit --more

?: You go to push up your work and your shell outputs this:

$ git push origin toggle-branch
To github.com:powerforeva/nitro.git
 ! [rejected]        toggle-branch -> toggle-branch (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:powerforeva/nitro.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart. Integrate the remote changes (e.g.
hint: 'git pull ...') before pushing again.
hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details.

This makes sense because you just amended your last commit (and rewrote history). What do you do to push up your changes?

(X)git push origin toggle-branch --force-with-lease ( )git push origin toggle-branch --amend ( )git push origin toggle-branch --force ( )git push origin toggle-branch --do-it

?: You want to move back to a previous commit on your branch. What command should you use?

( )git exchange ( )git moveback ( )git checkout (X)git reset

?: What command prints a history of local git commits?

( )git list (X)git log ( )git pull ( )git bisect

?: You want to move back to the 2nd to last commit on your branch. What command should you use?

( )git checkout HEAD^2 ( )git moveback HEAD^2 (X)git reset HEAD^2 ( )git checkout other_branch

?: You want to move back to the last commit on your branch and throw out all changes from the last commit. What command should you use?

( )git reset --mixed HEAD^1 ( )git reset --soft HEAD^1 (X)git reset --hard HEAD^1

?: You want to point to 4 commits earlier on your branch. Which of these are valid references to that commit?

[X]HEAD^4 [ ]HEAD*4 [X]HEAD~4 [ ]HEAD#4

?: git log returns:

commit 4c8560845c8bc02c003732291e5dc762d0d0d520 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Author: Kevin Skilton <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Oct 18 14:35:37 2017 -0200

    Keep master as reference

commit c926e26e9c1ac9be1adfca1e53aca85d481647d6
Author: Leila Weiss <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri May 19 11:38:52 2017 -0300

    Update search to work with files

What commands would point your local master branch to the commit with the subject "Update search to work with files"?

[X]git reset c926e26e9c1ac9be1adfca1e53aca85d481647d6 [X]git reset c926e26 [ ]git reset "Update search to work with files" [X]git reset HEAD~1

?: You have added some changes you would like to move back to untracked. What command will do this?

(X)git reset ( )git untracked ( )git rewind

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