Interview Q&A / Git & GitHub

1. What are the risks of relying on git stash?

   Stashes are local, easy to forget, and git stash drop or clear removes them. They are not on GitHub, so a disk failure loses them. For anything you care about, commit on a temporary branch instead.

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2. When is cherry-pick a bad idea?

   Overusing it creates duplicate commits with different hashes, which later cause confusing conflicts when the branches are merged. Prefer merging or rebasing when you want the whole branch.

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