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Quiz: .gitignore and Cleaning

Check your understanding of .gitignore and git clean.

1 Quiz: First Repository and Commit 2 Your First Repository and Commit 3 Branching and Merging 4 Quiz: Viewing History and Diffs 5 Viewing History and Diffs 6 Quiz: Undoing Changes 7 Undoing Changes 8 Quiz: Working with Remotes 9 Quiz: .gitignore and Cleaning 10 .gitignore and Cleaning 11 Quiz: Tagging Basics 12 Tagging Basics 13 Quiz: Stashing Changes 14 Stashing Changes 15 Quiz: Collaboration Workflow 16 Basic Collaboration Workflow 17 Checkpoint: Getting Started Quiz

Which file tells Git to ignore certain untracked files?

.gitignore
.gitconfig
.gitattributes

How do you define a global ignore file?

git ignore --global ~/.gitignore_global
git config --global core.excludesFile ~/.gitignore_global
git config --global core.ignoreFile ~/.gitignore_global

Why run git rm -r --cached . after adding patterns to .gitignore?

To remove already-tracked files from the index so ignores take effect
To delete files permanently from disk
To reset the repository

Which command previews which untracked files would be removed by git clean?

git clean -fd
git clean -nd
git clean -ad

Which pattern ignores all log files in any folder?

logs/*.log
*.log
/**/.log