Git job interview questions

Do you want to learn Git or polish your Git skills? Below you will find the list of Git questions and answers that will help you to identify your knowledge gaps and master Git like a pro.

QUESTION 1:

How do you personally use Git? Do you use GUI or command line?

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QUESTION 2:

What git command do you use to display all local branches?

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QUESTION 3:

The git stash command is a shortcut of another command. Which one?

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QUESTION 4:

What git command do you use to load workspace changes that were before temporarily saved without being committed to the repository?

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QUESTION 5:

What git command do you use to temporarily save all the workspace changes without committing them?

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QUESTION 6:

Which git command do you use to irreversibly discard all uncommitted changes from your local Git workspace?

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QUESTION 7:

What git command do you use to identify who changed the specific file under version control and what were the changes?

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QUESTION 8:

What git command do you use to get changes from the remote repository to your computer?

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QUESTION 9:

What git command do you use to find out what were the most recent changes in Git repository and who made them?

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QUESTION 10:

What is a hash in Git?

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QUESTION 11:

What is Staging Area (or Index) in Git?

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QUESTION 12:

What is a workspace in Git?

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QUESTION 13:

What does the git clone command do?

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QUESTION 14:

What git command do you use to create a local repository as a copy of remote repository?

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QUESTION 15:

What git command do you use to create an empty local repository?

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QUESTION 16:

What types of git repositories do you usually work with?

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QUESTION 17:

What is a .git folder?

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QUESTION 18:

What is a Git repository?

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QUESTION 19:

What is git?

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QUESTION 20:

What is a Version Control System (VCS)?

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QUESTION 21:

Which git command do you use to save all staged files to your local repository?

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QUESTION 22:

Which git command do you use to send all changes from your local repository to the remote repository?

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QUESTION 23:

Which git command do you use to stage all files with extension .png?

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QUESTION 24:

Which git command do you use to find out what files in your workspace are staged?

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QUESTION 25:

Which git command do you use to find out what files in your workspace are untracked?

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QUESTION 26:

Which git command do you use to see what files in your workspace were changed but were not yet staged??

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QUESTION 27:

How do you retrieve the latest changes from the remote repository and merge them with your current branch?

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QUESTION 28:

What git command do you use to find out which branch you are currently on?

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QUESTION 29:

How do you merge changes from master branch to a branch you are currently on?

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QUESTION 30:

How do you switch to the branch master?

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QUESTION 31:

Explain difference between reset and revert?

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QUESTION 32:

When do you use git rebase instead of git merge?

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QUESTION 33:

What is a difference between HEAD, working tree and index, in Git?

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QUESTION 34:

What is git cherry-pick?

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QUESTION 35:

How to revert previous commit in Git?

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QUESTION 36:

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

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QUESTION 37:

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

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QUESTION 38:

How can you fix a broken commit?

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QUESTION 39:

Why is it advisable to create an additional commit rather than amending an existing commit?

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QUESTION 40:

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

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QUESTION 41:

How do you squash last N commits into a single commit?

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QUESTION 42:

What does commit object contain?

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QUESTION 43:

How do you find a list of files that wer changed in a particular commit?

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QUESTION 44:

How do you revert a commit that has already been made public/pushed to a remote repository?

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QUESTION 45:

What is a difference between git pull and git fetch?

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QUESTION 46:

What is a difference between Git and TFS?

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QUESTION 47:

What is bare repository in Git?

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QUESTION 48:

When and why would you use git config command?

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QUESTION 49:

When and why would you use git stash?

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QUESTION 50:

What is git push good for?

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QUESTION 51:

What is git pull good for?

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QUESTION 52:

What do you need to do in order to use Git for your project?

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QUESTION 53:

What are hooks in Git?

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QUESTION 54:

What is SubGit good for?

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QUESTION 55:

What Git branching strategies do you know?

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QUESTION 56:

What is HEAD in Git?

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QUESTION 57:

Why would you use git stash drop command?

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QUESTION 58:

How can you verify if a branch is merged into master in Git?

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QUESTION 59:

How can you find five the most recent commits in Git repository?

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QUESTION 60:

What is a hash in Git?

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QUESTION 61:

How do you discard all changes from your local Git workspace?

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QUESTION 62:

What is the most basic Git workflow that you can use every day?

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QUESTION 63:

What is a workspace in Git?

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QUESTION 64:

How do you add changed files from your Git workspace to Staging Area (Index)?

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QUESTION 65:

What is .git folder?

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QUESTION 66:

How do you check what files are changed in your Git workspace?

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QUESTION 67:

What is Staging Area (or Index) in Git?

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QUESTION 68:

What does the Git clone command do?

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QUESTION 69:

How do you add a new file to the Git remote repository?

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QUESTION 70:

What is a git commit command?

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QUESTION 71:

How can you identify who changed the specific file under version control and what were the changes?

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QUESTION 72:

How can you find out what were the most recent changes in Git repository and who made them?

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QUESTION 73:

How do you get changes from the remote repository to your computer?

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QUESTION 74:

What is a difference between local and remote repository?

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QUESTION 75:

How do you create local Git repository?

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QUESTION 76:

How do you send changes from local Git repository to remote repository?

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QUESTION 77:

What is a Git repository?

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QUESTION 78:

What is Git?

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QUESTION 79:

What are the major benefits of using Version Control System (VCS)?

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QUESTION 80:

What is a Version Control System (VCS)?

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QUESTION 81:

Could you describe your day-to-day use of Git?

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