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Welcome to the Git Quiz! This blog post features 25 multiple-choice questions that explore essential concepts of Git.

1. What is Git?

Select the best answer

a) Text Editor
b) Compiler
c) Version Control System
d) Operating System

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2. Git is the same as GitHub.

Choose one option

a) False
b) True

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3. What is the command to get the installed version of Git?

Choose one option

a) git –version
b) git help version
c) getGitVersion
d) gitVersion

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4. Which command initializes a new Git repository?

Choose one option

a) git new
b) git create
c) git start
d) git init

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5. Which option should you use to set the default user name for every repository on your computer?

Choose one option

a) –global
b) –A
c) No need to specify, that is the default.
d) –all

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6. What is the command to set the user email for the current repository?

a) git config email
b) git email.user
c) git config user.email

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7. How can you view the commit history in Git?

a) git logs
b) git history
c) git commits
d) git log

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8. What is the command to add all files and changes of the current folder to the staging environment of the Git repository?

Choose one option

a) git add –all
b) git add –files
c) git add

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9. Which command adds changes to the staging area in Git?

Choose one option

a) git add
b) git save
c) git upload
d) git stage

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10. Which command shows the status of changes in the repository?

Choose one option

a) git status
b) git show
c) git view
d) git display

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11. How to ignore certain files in Git?

Choose one option

a) Ignored files are tracked in a special file named as .gitignore named which is checked in at the root of the repository.
b) Create a file .ignore and track the ignored file in it
c) You can not ignore files in GIT

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12.  Git automatically adds new files to the repository and starts tracking the changes

Choose one option

a) False
b) True

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13. How do you commit the staged changes?

Choose one option

a) git save
b) git update
c) git commit
d) git store

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14. How to unstage the staged changes in Git?

Choose one option

a) git remove
b) git rm
c) git add
d) git commit

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15. What is the command to commit with the message “New attribute”:

Choose one option

a) git commit -m “New attribute”
b) git commit -mess “New attribute”
c) git commit -log “New attribute”
d) git commit message “New attribute”

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16. What does the .git directory store?

Choose one option

a) Configuration files
b) Source code
c) Project documentation
d) Repository metadata and version history

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17. In Git, a branch is:

Choose one option

a) A separate version of the main repository.
b) A small wooden stick you can use to type commands.
c) Nothing, it is a nonsense word.
d) A secret part of Git config.

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18. What will the following command print to the Terminal?

git remote -v

Choose one option

a) The current git version you’re running
b) A list of remote repositories you are connected to
c) The last 5 git versions you’ve installed
d) An inline editor for modifying remote repositories

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 19. Which Command is used to show limited number of commits?

a) git log -f
b) git log -n
c) git config -n
d) git log status

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20. Git commit history is automatically deleted:

Choose one option

a) Every 2 weeks.
b) Every month.
c) Every year.
d) Commit history is never automatically deleted.

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21. Which command creates a new branch in Git?

a) git new branch
b) git branch-new
c) git branch
d) git create-branch

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22. What is the command to move to the branch named “new-email”?

a) git checkout new-email
b) git branch new-email
c) git checkout branch new-email
d) git branch -move new-email

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23. What is the option, when moving to a branch, to create the branch it if it does not exist?

a) -b
b) -new
c) -newbranch
d) -all

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24. How do you switch to a different branch in Git?

a) git switch
b) git move
c) git jump
d) git hop

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25. What is the command to add the remote repository “https://abc.xyz/d/e.git” as “origin”?

a) git remote add origin https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
b) git add origin https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
c) git origin=https://abc.xyz/d/e.git
d) git remote https://abc.xyz/d/e.git

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