Exercises

Basics
- Init a repository
- Track and stage new files
- Execute a commit
- Clone a repository
- Know state of a file (untracked, unmodified, modified, staged)
- Obtain current status of files
- Get a short version of status
- Know when a file can be both staged and unstaged
- Get exactly file differences between current files and last commit
- Get exactly file differences between staged files and last commit
- Commit files skipping staging area
- Remove a file (staging the removal of a file)
- Remove a file forcing and without deleting it
- Redoing/modify last commit
- Unstage a file
- Undoing changes in a file
- Know what sha-1 is
Ignoring
- Commit a gitignore
- Commit an empty folder
- Comment rows in gitignore
- Ignore all files except folders and files in folders
- Ignore all files with .txt format
- Ignore all files with .txt format except file important.txt
- Ignore a subfolder in a folder
- Ignore all files
- Ignore all files in a folder
- Ignore all files that ends with a number
- Ignore a folder regardeless its level in path
- Ignore all files and subfolders in a folder
Tagging
- List tags
- List tags starting with v1
- Know difference between lightweight and annotated tags
- Create an annotated tag
- Create a lightweight tag
- Tag a commit in the past
- Push tags to a remote
- Remove a tag from local repository
- Remove a tag from a remote
- Move to a commit by a tag
Branching
- Create a new branch
- Create and switch a branch at the same time
- Know what HEAD is
- Show where branch pointers are pointing
- Switch branches
- Merge a branch
- Know what fast-forward merge strategy is
- Know what recursive merge strategy is
- How solve conflicts during merge
- Know how to configure a mergetool
- Open mergetool
- Delete a branch
- Get a list of branches
- Get a list of branches with last commit
- Get a list of branches that has not been merged to the current branch
- Get a list of branches that has not been merged of another branch
Rebasing
- Know what is the difference between merging and rebasing
- Rebase changes of a branch to a different branch
- Rebase changes of a branch (with patches of different branchs) to a different branch
- Reabse to a different branch without checkout
- Know what are the perils of rebasing
- Rebase changes of a remote branch to a different branch
- Know what cherry-picking is
Get history
- Get commit history
- Get commit history of different branch
- Get commit history of all branches
- Get commit history of a limited commits number
- Get commit history with differences
- Get summarized commit history
- Get commit history with only one line per commit
- Know difference between author and committer
- Get commit history
- Get commit history with graph
- Get commit history of the last week
- Get commit history after the start of the current month
- Get commit history with git pickaxe option
- Get commit history regarding only a single file
- Get commit history regarding only a single folder
- Get commit history of commits containing a word
- Get commit history of commits of an author
- Get commit history of commits of a committer
- Get commit history without merge commits
- Get commit with abbreviated hashes
- Get N commit before HEAD
- Get commit parent of a commit
- Get all parents commit of a commit
- Get grandparent commit of a commit
- Get N parent commit of a commit
- Get all parents commit of a grandparent commit of a commit
- Get commits that has not been merged yet in a branch
- Get all commits in a branch A that aren't in a branch B
- Get all commits in branch A that you can push in a remote branch remote/A
- Get all commits not merged from branch A to HEAD without write "HEAD"
- Get all commits that are reachable from branch A, branch B but not branch C
- Get commits history without commits of a branch
- Get all commits reachable by two references but not by both (showing who can reach who)
Edit history
- Change last commit message
- Change last commit edits
- Change last commit without inputting message
- Change last 3 commits message
- Change last third commit message
- Change all commit messages from the start
- Change order of commits
- Merge 2 commits in one commit
- Split a commit in two different commits
- Merge 2 commits in one commit keeping only the message of the first commit
Remotes
- Know what is a remote
- Get a list of remotes
- Get a list of remotes urls
- Add a remote
- Fetch from a remote
- Pull from a remote
- Know what a tracking branch is
- Know what a upstream branch is
- Push to a remote
- Create a tracking branch with a different name
- Setup a local branch to become a tracking branch
- Change the upstream branch of a branch
- Get a list of all branches with tracking and upstream informations
- Delete a remote branch
- Get informations of a remote
- Rename a remote
- Remove a remote
Stashing
- Stash edits (in multiple ways)
- Get a list of stashes
- Apply a stash
- Apply a stash that is not the most recent
- Apply a stash with staged changes
- Remove a stash (in multiple ways)
- Adding a stash to the index
- Create a stash with untracked files
- Create a stash with ignored by default files
- Create a branch from a stash
- Simply remove existing edits
- Remove existing edits along with folders that would become empty
- Remove existing edits without the -f argument
- Show what happens if you would remove existing edits
- Remove existing edits in multiple git submodules
Online
- Know local transfer protocol, Pros and Cons
- Know http protocol, smart and dumb, Pros and Cons
- Know ssh protocol, Pros and Cons
- Know git protocol, Port, Pros and Cons
- Create a bare repository
- How to generate ssh keys (not necessarily git related but useful)
- Know what centralized workflow is
- Know what integration manager workflow is
- Know what dictator and lieutenants workflow is
- Know the general rules for a commit message
- Know what a repository fork is
Config
- List all global configurations
- Get a global configuration
- Set a global configuration
- Know what aliases are
- Setup an alias
- Configure a credential helper
Signing
- Know what gpg is
- Generate a personal key with gpg
- Setup git to use key to sign commits and tags
- Use a private key to sign a tag
- Verify a signed tag
- Use a private key to sign a commit
- Show tags and commits signatures in git log
- Show tags and commits signatures in git log in a pretty format
- Execute a git merge verifying a signature
- Execute a git pull verifying a signature
- Execute a merge and sign the commit merge
- Know GPG pros and cons
Searching
- Find a string in the codebase
- Find a matching regexp in the codebase
- Find a string in the codebase with relative file line number
- Find which files contain a string in the codebase
- Find how many times a file contains a string
- Show the wrapping class/function/module of a string in the codebase
- Find a line in the codebase where two different strings appear (no regexp)
- Find a string in the codebase and split output results
- Find what commits changed/created/removed a string
- Find what commits changed/created/removed a regexp match
- Show the history of a class/function/module
Tools
- Know what reflog is
- Know how to include reflog information in git log
Miscellaneous
- Setup rerere
- Generate a build number
- Zip an archive
- Obtain a shortlog

LeMeteore/git_exercises.md

Exercises