Git Kata: Basic Ignore

Setup:

Run ./setup.sh

The task

You have your own branch. We'll work a bit with .gitignore

• Create a .s file
• What is the output of git status?
• create a .gitignore file in your working directory containing *.s
• What is the output of git status?
• Commit the .gitignore file
• Add txt files to .gitignore
• What does git status tell us?
• Change file1.txt
• What does git status tell us?
• Make another textfile in the repository, what does git status look like now?
• Stage the removal of file1.txt
• What does git status say?

Useful commands

• git rm
• git add
• git commit
• git commit -m
• git log
• git log -n 5
• git log --oneline
• git log --oneline --decorate --graph

Aliases

You can set up aliases as such: git config --global alias.lol 'log --oneline --decorate --graph --all' This might be useful to you.