Why understanding internals matters in Git - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to check the current branch in Git.

Git

git [1]

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Acommit

Bbranch

Cclone

Dpush

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'commit' instead of 'branch' to see branches.

The git branch command shows the current branch and all branches in the repository.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to view the commit history in Git.

Git

git [1]

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Afetch

Bstatus

Cinit

Dlog

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'status' instead of 'log' to see commit history.

The git log command shows the commit history of the repository.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to add all changes to staging.

Git

git [1] .

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Apush

Bmerge

Cadd

Dcommit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'commit' instead of 'add' to stage changes.

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

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to switch to the new-feature branch.

Git

git [1] [2]

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Acheckout

Bbranch

Cnew-feature

Dcommit

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'branch' instead of 'checkout' to switch branches.

The command git checkout new-feature switches to the branch named 'new-feature'. To create and switch in one step, use git checkout -b new-feature, but here we focus on switching.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to show the difference between the staged changes and the last commit.

Git

git [1] [2] [3]

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Adiff

B--staged

CHEAD

Dstatus

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'status' instead of 'diff' to see changes.

The command git diff --staged HEAD shows the differences between the staged changes and the last commit (HEAD).