Creating a worktree in Git - Interactive Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the command to create a new worktree named 'feature' based on the branch 'develop'.

Git

git worktree add [1] develop

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Aorigin

Bfeature

Cmaster

Dmain

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using the wrong directory name like 'master' or 'main' when the branch is 'develop'.

Confusing the branch name with the directory name.

The git worktree add command creates a new working tree. Here, feature is the directory name for the new worktree based on the develop branch.

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medium

Complete the command to list all existing worktrees.

Git

git worktree [1]

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Alist

Bshow

Cstatus

Dcheck

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'show' or 'status' which are not valid subcommands for 'git worktree'.

Confusing with other git commands like 'git status'.

The command git worktree list shows all the worktrees currently linked to the repository.

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hard

Fix the error in the command to remove a worktree located at 'feature'.

Git

git worktree [1] feature

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Aremove-worktree

Bdelete

Cremove

Dprune

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using 'prune' which does not take a path argument and is for cleaning up non-existent worktrees.

Using 'delete' which is not a valid git worktree subcommand.

The correct command to remove a worktree is git worktree remove feature. It removes the working tree and its administrative files. Use -f to force removal if the worktree has uncommitted changes or untracked files.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a new worktree named 'hotfix' based on a new branch 'hotfix-1.0'.

Git

git worktree add -b [1] [2]

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Ahotfix-1.0

Bhotfix

Dmain

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Swapping branch name and directory name.

Using the wrong branch name or directory.

The -b option creates a new branch named hotfix-1.0. The directory for the worktree is hotfix.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to create a worktree for branch 'release' in directory 'release-dir' and then switch to it.

Git

git worktree add [1] [2]
git -C [3] switch release

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Arelease-dir

Brelease

Dmain

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Mixing up branch and directory names.

Forgetting to specify the directory in the switch command.

The first blank is the directory name release-dir, the second is the branch release, and the third is the directory to switch inside release-dir.