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  • Kjetil-Lennart A. Lorentzen
    Kjetil-Lennart A. Lorentzen
    13,390 Points

    The Diff-thing

    Posted June 24, 2018 2:53pm by Kjetil-Lennart A. Lorentzen
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  • Jordan Powell
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    Why did it show me the updates

    Posted May 27, 2017 10:27pm by Jordan Powell
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  • Keith Ostertag
    Keith Ostertag
    16,619 Points

    Tab completion not working for git checkout on command line?

    Posted May 5, 2017 3:06am by Keith Ostertag
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  • Ole Vølund Skov Mortensen
    Ole Vølund Skov Mortensen
    27,842 Points

    Am i right if git checkout moved my files to a previous commit?

    Posted March 22, 2017 8:49pm by Ole Vølund Skov Mortensen
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    1 Answer

  • A X
    A X
    12,842 Points

    What is the master file & if I understand the master correctly, what happens if we change a historical file?

    Posted January 3, 2017 4:41am by A X
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  • A X
    A X
    12,842 Points

    What is the cat tool?

    Posted January 3, 2017 4:39am by A X
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    3 Answers

  • Ashish Mehra
    Ashish Mehra
    1,322 Points

    what's that ?

    Posted August 13, 2016 9:27am by Ashish Mehra
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    2 Answers

  • Sara Garza
    Sara Garza
    9,200 Points

    CAT Tool Settings?

    Posted May 18, 2016 6:59am by Sara Garza
    Sara Garza
    9,200 Points
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    1 Answer

  • YI JIANG
    YI JIANG
    3,424 Points

    cat tool

    Posted April 5, 2016 4:21pm by YI JIANG
    YI JIANG
    3,424 Points
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  • YI JIANG
    YI JIANG
    3,424 Points

    show nothing after 7cd4e

    Posted April 5, 2016 4:20pm by YI JIANG
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  • Maksims Visnakovs
    Maksims Visnakovs
    2,616 Points

    Staging our changes

    Posted December 18, 2015 11:12pm by Maksims Visnakovs
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  • Jimmy Names
    Jimmy Names
    10,371 Points

    On task 5 of 6 (of the last challenge) why not use '-a' to commit all changes?

    Posted November 11, 2015 11:03am by Jimmy Names
    Jimmy Names
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  • Alex Hernandez
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    Courses Plus Student 1,936 Points

    Fatal message when git checkout

    Posted October 14, 2015 3:58pm by Alex Hernandez
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    Courses Plus Student 1,936 Points
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    4 Answers

  • rajbee
    rajbee
    6,657 Points

    Your own number instead of hashes for commit identifiers ?

    Posted September 18, 2015 6:46pm by rajbee
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  • Bappy Golder
    Bappy Golder
    13,449 Points

    Making changes to source files outside Git

    Posted August 16, 2015 10:31pm by Bappy Golder
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    1 Answer

  • Daniel Hildreth
    Daniel Hildreth
    16,170 Points

    Git Checkout Acting Weird

    Posted May 19, 2015 2:17am by Daniel Hildreth
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    1 Answer

  • Mathew Kurian
    Mathew Kurian
    4,698 Points

    What's the difference between "git commit" and "git commit -a"?

    Posted May 14, 2015 7:36pm by Mathew Kurian
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  • huckleberry
    huckleberry
    14,636 Points

    git checkout command - What the Tommy says vs what the console tells you.

    Posted March 27, 2015 6:42pm by huckleberry
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  • Jason Zeall
    Jason Zeall
    7,860 Points

    Stuck here: Add the changes I made to index.html to the staging area? Was this covered in the lesson?

    Posted March 14, 2015 1:44am by Jason Zeall
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  • robert piotrowski
    robert piotrowski
    2,549 Points

    git log doesn't show file name?

    Posted February 19, 2015 4:09pm by robert piotrowski
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  • Chris Martinez
    Chris Martinez
    11,715 Points

    "git -add" verbiage: repository/ staging area

    Posted December 6, 2014 11:20pm by Chris Martinez
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  • G. Silva
    G. Silva
    4,341 Points

    How to go back to the prompt after running git log?

    Posted November 6, 2014 4:29am by G. Silva
    G. Silva
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  • David Forero
    David Forero
    5,492 Points

    Continuing with an older commit because of mistake

    Posted October 29, 2014 4:29pm by David Forero
    David Forero
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  • Amil Boddie-Willis
    Amil Boddie-Willis
    9,661 Points

    I Lost My Project...

    Posted October 5, 2014 12:05am by Amil Boddie-Willis
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  • Mohd Maqbool Alam
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    Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 5,715 Points

    How to submit for extra credits

    Posted July 28, 2014 1:42pm by Mohd Maqbool Alam
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  • Christopher Borchert
    Christopher Borchert
    14,814 Points

    Discrepancy between the video and the challenge (HEAD vs master), which should I use?

    Posted July 26, 2014 11:29pm by Christopher Borchert
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    14,814 Points
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  • Gary Ford
    Gary Ford
    14,475 Points

    Stuck after git log command

    Posted June 18, 2014 9:49pm by Gary Ford
    Gary Ford
    14,475 Points
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  • Baoluo Wang
    Baoluo Wang
    1,479 Points

    Exit "git log"

    Posted May 1, 2014 10:51pm by Baoluo Wang
    Baoluo Wang
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  • Elizabeth Hicks
    Elizabeth Hicks
    45,186 Points

    Git Basics - "Getting Started With Git" Objectives - Feedback

    Posted April 14, 2014 2:07am by Elizabeth Hicks
    Elizabeth Hicks
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