Git Questions

Warm up for Git questions with most asked questions and answers for junior, mid, and senior roles.

Junior

How can you initialize a repository in Git?

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To initialize a repository in Git, you can use the git init command.

Junior

What is Git?

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Git is a version control system for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Junior

What’s the difference between Git and GitHub?

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Git is a version control system for tracking changes in files

 

GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service that lets you manage Git repositories.

Junior

Which command is used to create an empty Git repository?

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git init
Junior

What do you understand about the Git merge conflict?

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A merge conflict happens when Git is unable to automatically resolve differences in code between two commits.