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  • 1.

    What is the command to write a commit message in Git?

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    What is difference between Git vs SVN?

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    What is Git?

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    What is the difference between git pull and git fetch?

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    What's the difference between a pull request and a branch?

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    What is Git fork? What is difference between fork, branch and clone?

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    How does the Centralized Workflow work?

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    How to undo the most recent commits in Git?

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    You need to update your local repos. What git commands will you use?

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    Tell me the difference between HEAD, working tree and index, in Git?

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    Could you explain the Gitflow workflow?

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    How to revert previous commit in git?

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    Explain the advantages of Forking Workflow

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    What is git cherry-pick?

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    What is a "bare git" repository?

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    When should I use git stash?

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    You need to rollback to a previous commit and don't care about recent changes. What commands should you use?

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    What is difference between git stash pop and git stash apply?

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    What is the HEAD in Git?

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    How do you make an existing repository bare?

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    Can you explain what git reset does in plain English?

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    When would you use git clone over git clone --mirror?

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    When would you use git clone over git clone --bare?

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    When would you use git clone --bare over git clone --mirror?

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    What is the difference between git clone, git clone --bare and git clone --mirror?

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    What is git bisect? How can you use it to determine the source of a (regression) bug?

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    How can you use git bisect to determine the source of a (regression) bug?

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  • 28.

    What are the type of git hooks?

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    Do you know how to easily undo a git rebase?

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    What are "git hooks"?

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    When do you use git rebase instead of git merge?

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  • 32.

    Write down a sequence of git commands for a "Rebase Workflow"

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    How to remove a file from git without removing it from your file system?

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    How to amend older Git commit?

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    Write down a git command to check difference between two commits

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    What git command do you need to use to know who changed certain lines in a specific file?

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23 Databases interview questions and answers for software engineers

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21 Concurrency interview questions and answers for software engineers

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