2.0 - Git Basics

What is Git

• A version control system

• Centralized

• Distributed

• The same as GitHub

What is GitHub?

• A host for Git repositories

• An integrated development environment (IDE)

• The company that owns Git

• All of the above

Git stores the history of changes made to the codebase over time, and information about who made those changes.

• True

• False

Staging, or git add, is required before creating a commit.

• True

• False

What does the command git branch (without any options) do?

• Creates a new branch

• Renames a branch

• Deletes a branch

• Shows you a list of your local branches

Which of the following commands will merge branch-a into the master branch?

• git merge master and git checkout branch-a

• git checkout branch-a and git merge master

• git checkout master and git merge branch-a

• git merge branch-a and git checkout master

What are the characteristics of a good commit message?

• Commit messages are optional

• Less than 50 characters and written in the imperative mood

• Describe the change introduced by the commit

• Tell the story of how your project has evolved

A command to see a repository's history is?

• git commit

• git clone

• git push

• git log

The command git push is used to grab changes from the remote repository into your local repository.

• True

• False

What is a commit?

• A snapshot of just the changes from one time to the other

• A snapshot of all the files in the repository

• A collection of branches

• Another name for a repository