1. Which option should you use to set the default user name for every repository on your computer?
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To set a name for every Git repository on your machine, use
$ git config --global user.name "John Smith"
2.
What is the command to set the user email for the current repository?
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
3. What is the command to view the history of commits for the repository?
The most basic and powerful tool to do this is the git log
command.
4. What is the command to create a new branch named "new-email"?
git branch new-branch-name
5. What is the command to move to the branch named "new-email"?
git checkout -b <new-branch>
6. What is the option, when moving to a branch, to create the branch it if it does not exist?
-b
7. What is the command to delete the branch "new-email"
git branch -d new-email
8. What is the command to get all the change history of the remote repository "origin"?
Fetching changes from a remote repository
Use git fetch
to retrieve new work done by other people. Fetching from a repository grabs all the new remote-tracking branches and tags without merging those changes into your own branches.
9. Git Pull is a combination of:
The git pull
command is actually a combination of two other commands, git fetch followed by git merge. In the first stage of operation git pull
will execute a git fetch
scoped to the local branch that HEAD
is pointed at. Once the content is downloaded, git pull
will enter a merge workflow.
10.
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