Git Interview Questions and Answer Part – 9

Which section of GitHub can you use to track tasks? (Not Include in Questions)*

• Issues (Ans)
• Pages
• Pages
• Pages
• Work Items

Which operation in GitHub for Windows will automatically commit a new change to your local repository that does the opposite changes of a previous commit, effectively eliminating a previous commit?

• roll back
• undo
• revert (Ans)
• reverse

Which of these can you change in your GitHub for Windows Options window?

• default diff viewer
• push behavior
• default storage directory (Ans)
• default repository name
• sync refresh timing

Which operation will combine two branches by changing the order of the commits such that one branch now appears to have happened after the other?

• Combine
• Merge
• Reconstitute
• Rebase (Ans)

What happens if you are viewing a GitHub repository in your browser and drag the URL directly into the GitHub for Windows application?

• It creates a fork of the repository in GitHub.
• A bookmark is stored in GitHub for Windows.
• A zip file of the repository is downloaded.
• The repository is cloned and tracked locally. (Ans)

Which of these was NOT mentioned as a common rule for rebasing?

• Never Rebase after Fetching a Branch (Ans)
• Never Rebase after Commits use your Branch
• Never Rebase after Pushing a Branch
• Never Rebase after Pulling someone else’s Branch

What does forking a repository let you do?

• Have your own copy of the repository to modify. (Ans)
• Keep track of a repository that you’re interested in.
• Stop future changes from being made to that repository.

When tracking down the problem with an open issue, what option did I show that the resolver can use to communicate with the creator of the open issue?

• Email the user from their profile.
• Comment on the issue itself. (Ans)
• Send a git message to the user.

What is the name of GitHub’s native GUI application?

• GitUI
• GitHub for Windows (Ans)
• GitX
• GitHub

Which command can be used to get your stashed changes back?

• git stash get
• git stash pull
• git stash pop (Ans)
• git stash

How do you associate a TFS Work Item to a Git commit?

• From Team Explorer, add the Work Item under the Related Work Items section
• From Command-line, add the Work Item ID to the commit message, with a hashtag in front of it
• From Team Explorer, add the Work Item ID to the commit message with a hashtag in front of it
• All of the above (Ans)

What are the qualities of a good commit that together make up the acronym ACID?

• Atomic, compact, irreversible and durable
• Atomic, consistent, incremental and documented (Ans)
• Additional, concise, isolated and documented
• Atomic, consistent, isolated and durable

What does the two-dot notation, A..B mean when used with git log?

• It includes all the commits reachable from B, but not from A. (Ans)
• It includes all the commits reachable from A, but not from B.
• It includes all the commits reachable from both A or B.
• It includes all the commits reachable from either A or B.

What does the three-dot notation, A…B, mean when used with git log?

• It includes all the commits reachable from either A or B.
• It includes all the commits reachable from both A and B.
• It includes all the commits reachable from either A or B, but not both. (Ans)
• It includes all the commits reachable from neither A nor B.

What is the difference between the –mixed and –soft options of git reset?

• –mixed modifies both the index and the working directory, while –soft modifies only the index.
• –mixed modifies only the working directory, while –soft modifies only the index.
• –mixed modifies only the index, while –soft doesn’t modify anything. (Ans)
• –mixed modifies only the working directory, while –soft doesn’t modify anything.

Git Source Control Provider only works with Visual Studio 2010.

• True
• False (Ans)

Git creates a separate folder for each branch that you create.

• True (Ans)
• False

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