Questions

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

1. How can you avoid having a large number of build artifacts appear in the git status output?
2. Let’s assume that you use a custom domain-specific language (DSL) or a programming language without built-in support in Git, such as Julia. How can you configure Git so that it provides better support for this language?
3. How can you squash the two most recent commits while making one commit out of them?
4. How can you split the most recent commit into two commits?
5. What should you do if an urgent change is needed (for example, because of a security bug) but the working area is in a messy state and you don’t want to lose your work?
6. How can you search through an old revision of the project – for example, a version tagged v0.1 – without checking out that revision?