CSE 3901 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS

CSE 3901 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM STUDY
GUIDE COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS

●● Git Working Tree
Answer: project itself


Ordinary directory with files & subdirectories


●● Git Store
Answer: history of project


●● Git Index
Answer: virtual snapshot


Gateway for moving changes in the working tree into the store


●● Git History
Answer: DAG of commits


Each commit represents a complete snapshot of the entire project

,●● Git Revision
Answer: Just the manual editing of the file


●● Git Commit
Answer: updates head and branch (permanent)


identified by a hash


●● Git Branch
Answer: a pointer to a commit


●● how to add git branch
Answer: git branch branchname
git checkout branchname


●● how to change git branch
Answer: git checkout branchname


●● Git Head
Answer: a pointer to a branch
(where you're at)

,●● Git Add
Answer: adds the submission


●● how to add (all steps)
Answer: git add name.rb
git commit -m "comment"
git push remote_name branch_name


●● Git Checkout
Answer: moves head to look at another branch


●● Git Merge
Answer: brings two together, adds new commit


●● Git Fast-Forward Merge
Answer: bring old into new head


●● Git Fetch
Answer: bring in commits that given user lacks


●● Git Push

, Answer: opposite to fetch. Give someone a change


●● Git Pull
Answer: combines fetch and merge


●● Git No Conflict Merge
Answer: Automatically commits


●● Distributed version control
Answer: Multiple people, distributed across network


- each person has their own repository
- units of data movement: changesets


●● Number of repositories per team
Answer: n+1.
1 shared, 1 local for each


●● Discard Changes in Git : reset
Answer: git reset --hard
git clean --dry-run
git clean --force