Git Questions

Git merge: moves changes from a branch to another and creates a merge commit. History is preserved.

Git rebase: moves changes from a branch to another but alters the history by moving the origin branch's starting point. It does not create a merge commit.

The commit object contains the directory tree object hash, parent commit hash, author, committer, date and message.

Git reflog is a command that shows a more detailed history of a branch.

The staging area is a temporary area where Git stores changes that have not yet been committed. When you commit, Git moves the changes from the staging area to the commit history.

Git bisect is a tool that allows you to find the commit that introduced a bug in your code.

The git fetch command downloads commits, files from a remote repository into your local repo.

The git pull fetches and merges any commits from the remote branch

The git ls-tree command is used to list the contents of a tree object.

The git revert command is a forward-moving undo operation that offers a safe method of undoing changes. Instead of deleting or orphaning commits in the commit history, a revert will create a new commit that inverses the changes specified.

The git reset command is used when we want to move the repository back to a previous commit , discarding any changes made after that commit.

SubGit is a Git submodule. It is a way to add a repository as a submodule to another repository.