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Re:Git Exercises by mcstafford on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:30PM (#24674471)
> git start master

I've been using git for years, and can't find documentation for start.

https://gitexercises.fracz.com/exercise/master https://git-scm.com/docs

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Re:Git Exercises by yissp on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:35PM (#24674493)
The configure.sh script you run at the start creates a few aliases (start, verify, exercises). See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fracz/git-exercises/master...
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Re:Git Exercises by dengsauve on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:58PM (#24674624)
Thank you for posting this, when I cloned the repo initially from the site, configure.sh was not included.
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Re:Git Exercises by kubanczyk on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:39PM (#24674854)
Yup, the initial `git clone` is checking out detached head 71c5f2d08f23d30c6fc11ac71d65f683b326c844.

It looks like the remote bare repo has a botched HEAD.

Workaround:

    cd exercises
    git checkout master
    ./configure.sh
    git start
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Re:Git Exercises by toyg on Saturday October 03, 2020 @08:14PM (#24675684)
> It looks like the remote bare repo has a botched HEAD.

So the guy teaching us git has a messed-up git repo...?

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

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Re:Git Exercises by cgriswald on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:39PM (#24674518)
From the site:

> And the git start?

> That is the first alias configured by the script described above. It initializes the first exercise that is on master branch. Read the instructions and solve it!

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