GitHub Trivia

Random GitHub Questions

100

Half cat half octopus what is the name of the Github Mascot?

Mona/octocat

200

This markdown file is on the front page of your repo

README.md

300

Where you track bugs and features requests?

Issues

400

GitHubs free website hosting service

GitHub Pages

500

Cloud Dev Environment you can open from a repo in your browser

Codespaces

Collaborative Building

100

also a tree part. What do you create to work on a feature without touching main?

Branch

200

Copy of someone elses repo on your own account 

Fork

300

Command that downloads a copy of remote repo

git clone <url>

400

A request to merge your changes into someone else's repo

Pull Request

500

What happens when 2 branches change the same line

Merge conflict

Git Basics

100

How do you create a new repo locally?

git init

200

This command shows staged, unstaged, and untracked files

git status

300

Shows the history of commits

git log

400

The file that tells git what to ignore

.gitignore

500

How do you commit JUST the /test directory?

git add test/ then git commit -m "..."

Automations and AI

100

What is GitHub Actions

A CI/CD pipeline for building, testing, and automating code

200

How do you start the GitHub Copilot CLI?

copilot

300

What language are actions workflows written in

YAML

400

The folder where workflow files live.

./github/workflows

500

Where you store API keys and reference them with ${{secrets.name}} 

GitHub Secrets

Command Line Tricks

100

GitHubs official command line tool 

gh

200

Temporarily put away your code changes

git stash

300

Brings your stashed changes back

git stash pop

400

The difference between git fetch and git pull

fetch downloads only; pull downloads and merges

500

The pointer to the commit you are currently on

HEAD