Working directory state in Git - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to check the current status of your working directory.

Git

git [1]

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

Astatus

Bpush

Cclone

Dcommit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git commit' instead of 'git status' to check changes.

Using 'git push' which sends changes to remote, not shows status.

The git status command shows the current state of the working directory and staging area.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to discard changes in a file named app.py and restore it to the last committed state.

Git

git checkout -- [1]

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

Aconfig.yaml

BREADME.md

Cindex.html

Dapp.py

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong file name that does not exist.

Omitting the double dash -- which separates options from file names.

The command git checkout -- app.py restores app.py to the last committed version, discarding local changes.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to stage all changed files for commit.

Git

git [1] .

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

Acommit

Bpush

Cadd

Dstatus

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git commit .' which tries to commit without staging.

Using 'git push .' which is invalid syntax.

The command git add . stages all changes in the current directory for the next commit.

4fill in blank

hard

Complete the command to switch to the branch named feature.

Git

git [1] [2]

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

Acheckout

Bbranch

Cfeature

Dcommit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

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

Using 'git commit feature' which is invalid.

The command git checkout feature switches to the branch named feature.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to show the differences between the working directory and the last commit for the file server.js.

Git

git [1] [2] [3]

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

Adiff

B--

Cserver.js

Dstatus

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'git status server.js' which shows status but not detailed differences.

Omitting the double dash which can confuse git about arguments.

The command git diff -- server.js shows changes in server.js that are not yet staged.