Git MCQ Questions Answers

1. After a recent release with a stack trace, an issue is create that indicates the problem is with a newly added configuration property named MaxConnections. What command can find all commits that add or remove the string MaxConnections?

2. After staging changes to several files, you realize the changes to the confin.properties file are incorrect, and need to be removed from the stage and working directory. What command can you use to remove the staged changes to the file?

3. What statement best describes Git's concept of HEAD?

4. After making some major changes to your code, you are a little nervous about committing. What command would you use to review the commit prior to making it?

5. What is the difference between git stash pop and git stash apply?

6. What type of Git hook could be used to validate that a commit message contains a ticket number?

7. What command takes changes from the master branch on the remote repository origin and merges them to the local checked-out branch?

8. What are untracked files?

9. What command would you use to stage changes to the index strictly for properties files in the current directory?

10. What is the staging area or index?

11. What does the -p option add to the output of the git log command?

12. What command takes changes from the master branch on the remote repository orgin and merges then to the local checked-out branch?

13. When Git Workflows contain a long-running branch, what purpose does the long-running branch serve?

14. What command finds the HEAD of the current branch?

15. What features do repository managers such as GitHub provide beyond Git?

16. How would you display a histogram showing inserts, deletion, and modifications per file for a specific commit along with its general commit information?

17. After accidentally deleting a branch in your local repository, how can you recover it?

18. After checking out a specific commit, you receive a warning message indicating You are in 'detached HEAD' state. What is Git warning you of?

19. How does the -p option change the behavior of the git add command

20. What is the default setting of git reflog when no subcommands are specified?

21. How would you delete a remote branch in your repository?

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

23. You stashed three sets of changes but cannot remember the contents of the first stash entry. What command would you use to see the details of the changes in the first of the three stash entries?

24. What is the difference between git branch -d and git branch -D?

25. You would like to restore some previously stashed work to a new branch. How can you do that?

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

27. What command displays the difference between the working tree and the stage/index area, as well as files not tracked by Git?

28. What is the difference between git fetch and git pull

29. You have just completed rebasing your master branch and need to manually update the remote master, even though there is a merge conflict. How can you accomplish this?

30. What information do Git reflogs (reference logs) store?

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

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

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

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

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

36. What is version control?

37. What information does the git config file store?

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

39. This command is an example of what kind of tag? git tag -a v1.4 -m "ABCD v1.5"

40. What is the difference between Git and SVN?

41. How does this command alter the currently checked-out branch? git reset --soft HEAD^

42. What conflicts can occur when forcing a push after rebasing?

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

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

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

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

47. Which command correctly creates a lightweight tag?

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

49. 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?

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

51. What is a remote repository?

52. 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?

53. How does Git internally manage branches?

54. What happens if you run this command from your master branch? git checkout -b beta-test

55. 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?

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

57. What does the git stash drop command do?

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

59. What types of tags does Git support?

60. How many individual commits can a single repository have?

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

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

63. What Language is used in GIT?

64. What does refs store?

65. Which strategy is used by Git for merging two branches?

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

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

68. How does Git think of its data?

69. Which command gets a copy of an existing Git repository?

70. Which of these terms best describes Git?

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

72. Which of the following is called dumb protocol?

73. Which Git command begins tracking of a new file?

74. Which of the following is an integration manager?

75. Which command will list tags with the 1.4.2 series?

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

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

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

79. What does commit object contain?

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

81. 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?

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

83. 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?

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

85. What change will the following command make to the staging area files? git rm --cached testfile.js

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

87. What command would let you modify your previous commit?

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

89. 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

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

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

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

93. 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?

94. 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?

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

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

97. After you make changes to a local repository, you run the following command. What will this do? git commit -a -m "Refactor code base"

98. What files is this .gitignore programmed to leave out? #.swift; build/; *.txt; *.metadata;

99. How can you display a list of files added or modified in a specific commit?

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