What do most people say for “Name a Git subcommand”?

The usual first answers are clone, commit and push. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a Git subcommand”?

35 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 17 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a Git subcommand” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “gc” and the longest is “interpret trailers”.

Computer Science trivia

Name a Git subcommand

“Name a Git subcommand” is one of 34 computer science prompts in Icillion. Of its 35 accepted answers, 3 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.

The tip of the iceberg

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

clone
commit
push

One step down

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

pull
fetch
add
status
checkout
branch

Answers by level

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	6	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	17	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with D, L, M, R, S and T. The Abyss has 17 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Facts about this list

35 answers in total, 4 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “gc”. Longest: “interpret trailers”.
R, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 49% of the answers.
4 answers can be typed more than one way: “rev-parse” counts as rev parse.

How to go deeper

Start with R: 7 of the answers begin with it.
clone, commit and push are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Go down the stack: from apps to protocols to the hardware underneath.

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Words in this prompt

Version control

Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a Git subcommand”?: The usual first answers are clone, commit and push. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a Git subcommand”?: 35 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 17 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a Git subcommand” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “gc” and the longest is “interpret trailers”.

All 34 computer science prompts

How deep does your knowledge go?

Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.

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