Editing commit messages with rebase in Git - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to start an interactive rebase for the last 3 commits.

Git

git rebase -i HEAD~[1]

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A5

B2

C3

D4

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Common Mistakes

Using HEAD~2 or HEAD~4 instead of HEAD~3.

Forgetting the -i flag for interactive rebase.

The command git rebase -i HEAD~3 starts an interactive rebase for the last 3 commits.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to change the commit message of a commit during rebase.

Git

In the rebase todo list, replace 'pick' with '[1]' to edit the commit message.

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Adrop

Bedit

Csquash

Dfixup

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Common Mistakes

Using 'squash' or 'fixup' instead of 'edit' to change messages.

Not replacing 'pick' with any command.

Replacing 'pick' with 'edit' allows you to stop at that commit and change its message.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to continue rebase after editing a commit message.

Git

After editing the commit message, run 'git [1] --continue' to proceed.

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Arebase

Bpush

Ccommit

Dmerge

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Common Mistakes

Using 'git commit --continue' or 'git push --continue'.

Using 'git merge --continue' which is for merges, not rebase.

The correct command is git rebase --continue to proceed after editing a commit.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to create a dictionary comprehension that maps commit hashes to their messages, filtering commits with messages containing 'fix'.

Git

{commit.[1]: commit.[2] for commit in commits if 'fix' in commit.message}

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Ahexsha

Bauthor

Cmessage

Ddate

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Common Mistakes

Using 'author' or 'date' instead of 'hexsha' or 'message'.

Confusing commit attributes.

Use commit.hexsha for commit hash and commit.message for the commit message.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to write a git command that amends the last commit with a new message without changing the commit content.

Git

git commit --amend -m "[1]" && git [2] origin [3]

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AUpdated commit message

Bpush

CHEAD

Dpull

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Common Mistakes

Using 'pull' instead of 'push' after amending.

Not specifying the branch or HEAD when pushing.

The command amends the last commit message and pushes the updated commit to the remote branch HEAD.