Git MCQ: Git Multiple Choice Questions and Answers

What option can you use to apply git configurations across your entire git environment?

What conflicts can occur when forcing a push after rebasing?

You want to perform a git reset but cannot recall all of the available options. What command would you use to see a description of them?

. What is the best way to characterize the git commit structure?

What commands would you use to force an overwrite of your local files with the master branch?

Which of these terms best describes Git?

Which use case is NOT a good candidate for a Git hook?

How does this command alter the currently checked-out branch?

git reset --soft HEAD^

What does commit object contain?

How would you create a custom shortcut or command across your git environment?

What is a remote repository?

How could you squash multiple commits together without using git merge --squash?

You find that your project has a tag and branch both named push-notifications, which causes confusion when trying to print out given reference. How can you specify which branch you want to look at?

Which of the following is true of the git push command?

What command would let you modify your previous commit?

What does the following command do to the git repository?

git reset --soft HEAD^

If you cloned an existing git repository, what would happen?

. Which statement is true of the git push command?.

What is the status of the beta-notes.js file in the following output?

Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified: beta-notes.js

After modifying some existing files in a repository, you decide to discard the changes. What command can you use?

Describe what the following git commands do to the commit history.

git reset --hard HEAD~5
git merge --squash HEAD@{1}

This command is an example of what kind of tag ?

git tag -a v1.4 -m "ABCD v1.5"

Which option to git commit, will modify last commit message?

What command creates a new branch from the currently checked-out branch?

What does refs store?

How does Git think of its data?

Which command correctly creates a lightweight tag?

Your team lead needs a list of all commits that will be moved before you perform a rebase. Which command can you use to access that information?

While modifying a file, you're unexpectedly assigned an urgent bug fix on another branch. How can you temporarily save your local work without committing?

Your current repository has three branches: master, beta and push-notifications. You've just finished the notification feature and commit the changes to the push-notifications branch, and you want to include them in the beta branch. How can you accomplish this?

If you have several commits for a single feature, what is the most efficient way to restructure your commit history?

What Language is used in GIT?

What is the main issue with using git rebase when working with multiple developers?

Which statement is true when you use the git add -A command?

What will the following command print to the Terminal?
git remote -v

How can you check your current git version?

How many individual commits can a single repository have?

Which of the following is called dumb protocol?

. How many ways are present in Git to integrate changes from one branch into another?

Which of the following is an integration manager?

What is the difference between initializing a normal repo and a bare repo?

What types of tags does Git support?

Where are files stored before they are committed to the local repository ?

What is version control?

After checking your git status you get the following output, which shows the file beta-notes.js in the commit but also unstaged. How can this situation occur?

Change to be committed:

(use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
modified: beta-notes.js
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout --<file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified: beta-notes.js

Which setting determines what pager is used when Git pages output?

. Which option enables inclusion of committer name in custom log format?

How would you configure Git to abort a commit if a smoke test script fails?

Looking at the following commands, describe what is happening.

git checkout feature-user-location
git cherry-pick kj2342134sdf090093f0sdgasdf99sdfo992mmmf9921231

Which option enables inclusion of author name in custom log format?

In a situation where you have several commits for a single task, what is the most efficient way to restructure your commit history?

Which command gets a copy of an existing Git repository?

Which command will list tags with the 1.4.2 series?

You find a bug in your project, but can't locate where it was introduced in the commit history. How would you diagnose this problem?

While working on a feature branch you try to use "git rerere" to solve a recurring merge conflict but nothing is happening. What could be causing this issue?

What Git workflow is used by teams that collaborate on a single branch and avoid creating long-lived development branches?

What does the git stash drop command do?

Which user should be created first during setting up of SSH?

 Which option on the git log command allows you to limit output to commits made after certain data?

What change will the following command make to the staging area files?

git rm --cached testfile.js

Why would you use a pre-receive hook in your remote repository?

What is the difference between Git and SVN?

 What happens if you run this command from your master branch?

git checkout -b beta-test

How would you delete unreachable objects older than a specified time from your project database?

Where are files stored before they are committed to the local repository?

After pushing commits to the remote repository for the first time using the command below, what shorthand command can you use in future?

git push -u origin master

What is the operation doing given the Git commands below?
git bisect start
git bisect bad 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
git bisect good 69faab6268350295550de7d587bc323d

After you've successfully merged two branches and committed the changes, what is the next step in keeping your git structure organized?

How does Git internally manage branches?

. After staging a series of changes to the index, which command could you use to review them prior to a commit?

Which Git command begins tracking of a new file?

Suppose you needed to see a list of all files that had been modified or added to a specific commit over the course of a project. How would you accomplish this?

What is usually the extension of file which has the public key?

After starting to work on a new feature and creating new files in the working directory related to it, the customer determinded the feature was no longer required. What command can be used to remove the untracked files from the working directory ?

What command would you use to create a new git repository?

You're in the middle of modifying a file when you're unexpectedly assigned an urgent bug fix on another branch. What would you do to temporarily save the work your doing locally without committing?

Your current project has several branches; master, beta, and push-notifications. You've just finished the notification feature in the push-notification branch, and you want to commit it to beta branch. How can you accomplish this?

What files is this .gitignore programmed to leave out?

#.swift
build/

*.txt
*.metadata

What is the difference between using the git stash and git stash pop commands?

What information does the git config file store?

Which key press returns a set of suggestions to pick from, when writing a Git command?

What is the difference between a soft reset (git reset --soft) and a hard reset (git reset –hard) ?

After you make changes to a tracked file, you run the following command. What will this do?

git commit -a -m "Refactor code base"

After starting to merge a feature branch into your master branch, you encounter a merge conflict and decide you do not want to perform the merge. How can you stop the merge and restore to the pre-merge state?

Which strategy is used by Git for merging two branches?

After mistakenly staging a file named myFile to the index, how would you remove it from the index to exclude it from your next commit?

Which version onwards did Git offer reversing a file back to what it looked like when last committed?

Which of the following is true you when you use the following command?

git add -A

Which command can be used to list the branches that have been merged into the currently checked-out branch?

Why would the following command be used?

git rebase -i HEAD~10