Exercises

Exercise 1 - Choosing a Commit Message:

Which of the following commit messages would be most appropriate for the last commit made to git.txt?

1. “Changes”

2. “Added line ‘Torvalds said "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'.""

3. “how git was named--citation from Torvalds”

Exercise 2 - Committing to Git

Which command(s) below would save the changes of myfile.txt to my local Git repository?

1. git commit -m "my recent changes"

2. git init myfile.txt
   git commit -m "my recent changes"

3. git add myfile.txt
   git commit -m "my recent changes"

4. git commit -m myfile.txt "my recent changes"

Exercise 3 - Committing Multiple Files

The staging area can hold changes from any number of files that you want to commit as a single snapshot.

1. Add some text to git.txt noting your decision to consider use git to help your work

2. Create a new file I_love_git.txt with your initial thoughts about git

3. Add changes from both files to the staging area, and commit those changes.

Exercise 4

bio Repository

• Create a new Git repository on your computer called bio.

• Write a two-line biography for yourself in a file called me.txt, commit your changes

• Modify one line, add a third line

• Display the differences between its updated state and its original state