Creating and switching in one step in Git - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to create and switch to a new branch named 'feature'.

Git

git [1] feature

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Amerge

Bbranch

Cswitch

Dcheckout -b

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git branch' only creates the branch but does not switch.

Using 'git switch' alone without '-c' does not create a branch.

Using 'git merge' is for combining branches, not creating.

The git checkout -b command creates a new branch and switches to it immediately.

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medium

Complete the command to create and switch to a new branch named 'hotfix' using the modern git command.

Git

git [1] -c hotfix

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Abranch

Bcheckout

Cswitch

Dmerge

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git checkout' is older but still valid.

Using 'git branch' does not switch branches.

Using 'git merge' is unrelated.

The modern way to create and switch branches is git switch -c branch_name.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to create and switch to a new branch named 'release'.

Git

git switch [1] release

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-c

B-b

C--create

D-n

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using '-b' with 'git switch' causes an error.

Using '--create' is not a valid option.

Using '-n' does not create a branch.

The correct option to create and switch is -c, not -b with git switch.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create and switch to a new branch named 'dev' using the older git command.

Git

git [1] [2] dev

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Acheckout

Bbranch

C-b

D-c

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git branch -b' is invalid.

Using '-c' with 'checkout' is incorrect.

Using 'git switch' instead of 'checkout' here.

The older command to create and switch is git checkout -b branch_name.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create and switch to a new branch named 'test' using the modern git command.

Git

git [1] [2] [3]

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Aswitch

B-c

Ctest

Dcheckout

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'checkout' instead of 'switch' for modern command.

Omitting '-c' option.

Placing branch name before the option.

The modern command is git switch -c test to create and switch to 'test'.