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?

<p>git commit --amend (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens when you amend a commit?

<p>The SHA-1 of the commit changes (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>git rebase -i (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can you modify multiple commit messages using git rebase?

<p>Change 'pick' to 'edit' for each commit in the rebase script (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>git rebase (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Git applies both the current change and the change directly before it. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>git rebase (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>git rebase --abort (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>git filter-branch --tree-filter 'rm -f passwords.txt' HEAD (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Hard-reset your master branch (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>--all (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Rewrites every commit to have the new address (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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