Random GitHub Questions
Half cat half octopus what is the name of the Github Mascot?
Mona/octocat
also a tree part. What do you create to work on a feature without touching main?
Branch
How do you create a new repo locally?
git init
What is GitHub Actions
A CI/CD pipeline for building, testing, and automating code
GitHubs official command line tool
gh
Copy of someone elses repo on your own account
Fork
This command shows staged, unstaged, and untracked files
git status
How do you start the GitHub Copilot CLI?
copilot
Temporarily put away your code changes
git stash
Where you track bugs and features requests?
Issues
Command that downloads a copy of remote repo
git clone <url>
Shows the history of commits
git log
What language are actions workflows written in
YAML
Brings your stashed changes back
git stash pop
GitHubs free website hosting service
GitHub Pages
A request to merge your changes into someone else's repo
Pull Request
The file that tells git what to ignore
.gitignore
The folder where workflow files live.
./github/workflows
The difference between git fetch and git pull
fetch downloads only; pull downloads and merges
Cloud Dev Environment you can open from a repo in your browser
Codespaces
What happens when 2 branches change the same line
Merge conflict
How do you commit JUST the /test directory?
git add test/ then git commit -m "..."
The pointer to the commit you are currently on
HEAD