Interactive Rebasing and Commit Consolidation

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Which of the following is NOT a way to revise your local commit history in Git?

Removing commits entirely

Adding files to a commit (correct)

Modifying files in a commit

Changing the order of the commits

What is one of the cardinal rules of Git when it comes to rewriting your commit history?

You should push your work as soon as possible

You should always rewrite your history before sharing it with others

You should avoid rewriting your history locally (correct)

You should never rewrite your history

What are the two basic things you can do to your last commit in Git?

Add files to the commit and remove commits entirely

Modify files in the commit and add files to the commit

Change the commit message and change the order of the commits

Change the commit message and modify files in the commit (correct)

Which command can be used to modify a commit message and the content of the commit?

git commit --amend Signup and view all the answers

What happens when you amend a commit?

The SHA-1 of the commit changes Signup and view all the answers

What command should you use to rebase a series of commits onto the original HEAD?

git rebase -i Signup and view all the answers

How can you modify multiple commit messages using git rebase?

Change 'pick' to 'edit' for each commit in the rebase script Signup and view all the answers

Which command can be used to squash multiple commits into a single commit?

git rebase Signup and view all the answers

What happens when you specify 'squash' instead of 'pick' or 'edit' in the rebase script?

Git applies both the current change and the change directly before it. Signup and view all the answers

What command can be used to split a commit into multiple commits?

git rebase Signup and view all the answers

What command can be used to undo a rebase and return the repository to its previous state?

git rebase --abort Signup and view all the answers

Which command can be used to remove a file named passwords.txt from every snapshot in Git?

git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f passwords.txt' HEAD Signup and view all the answers

What should you do after running filter-branch on a testing branch to ensure the desired outcome?

Hard-reset your master branch Signup and view all the answers

Which option should be used with filter-branch to run it on all branches in Git?

--all Signup and view all the answers

What does filter-branch do when you want to change email addresses in multiple commits in a batch?

Rewrites every commit to have the new address Signup and view all the answers

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