git-game / git-game

terminal game to test git skills

Welcome to the git-game!!

This is a terminal game designed to test your knowledge of git commands. Each level in the game is a task to perform on this repo. Once you perform that task, you will be given your next task. There are a total of ten levels, each one harder than last!

Let's get this journey started!!

Clone this repository by running:

$ git clone https://github.com/hgarc014/git-game.git

Don't know a lot about git??

Then you should check these files for assistance:

https://github.com/mikeizbicki/ucr-cs100/blob/2015winter/textbook/cheatsheets/git-cheatsheet.md

https://github.com/mikeizbicki/ucr-cs100/tree/2015winter/textbook/tools/git/advanced-git

Otherwise, you are free to continue...

You can win a badge for completing this game!

learn more about badges here: https://openbadgefactory.com/faq

You should always check the README.md file for your next clue!

Level 1

Your first task is to checkout the commit whose commit message is the answer to this question:

When a programmer is born, what is the first thing he/she learns to say?

git-game's Issues

how to answer question?

i don`t know how to start the game. sorry, this question may be stupid .

CHEATS! or might be called TIPS!

I guess we can avoid few things... skipping steps!

• outputclue.sh can be by passed easily, without resolving the conflict! (sorry i'm not telling how)
• you can change the to desier branch without removed tags.
• @hgarc014 thanx for the awesome game!
  

Is there any thing I missed on Level 5?

Hi, I noticed those words when I reached Level 5:

This file is hidden by default,
but did you know you have some branches that aren't shown to you,
when you check the list of branches?

I'm not sure if git has any method to hide a branch? Could you help me to find out why it mentioned that "some branches that aren't shown to you when you check the list of branches"

For me, this level looks like just do git checkout tree. Anything I missed?

Thanks!

md5sum

Just a little thing, not sure if this was intentional, but the md5sum binary is called md5 in OS X.

openbadgefactory FAQ - broken link

The FAQ from openbadgefactory has moved to:
https://openbadgefactory.com/help/

Got stuck on the .gitignore hint

For the riddle about the data-type and the hidden branches, I'm not quite sure how to proceed. I'm pretty new to git. Does anyone have a hint as to how I might find this hidden branch?

Is there a level 9?

Level 8 led me to level 10

Test your git skills with the git-game-v2!

Hey guys, we've created a sequel to git-game. If you think you're a pro at using git then try our game out to see how good you really are with some of git's more advanced features. Try it! git-game-v2

New game request

This is great for folks who already know their way around git. It is, of course, a test of git skills. The problem is that it assumes a certain familiarity with git. The links in the README are useful, but not all that much for people (like me) who are new to git.

Can we get a git skills trainer game for git beginners? That would be awesome.

Thanks.

MEM 课程建设

用于MEM入学导引课

Remote branch list spills all secrets

Doing a [ git branch -r ] reveals the list of all remote branches and then it becomes very easy to figure out which branch to checkout with the given the hints. Maybe a little more complexity should be added based on some other git concepts

lesson 2

when I get to the branch 'bug', the README is equal to the previous one. am I doing something wrong?

Level 3 typo

In the readme during level 3 it says "Congradulations" when it obviously should be congratulations.

outputclue.sh does not work on Windows (different issue than #8)

When running on Windows with git-bash (at least the way I have it configured), echo $w | $csum | awk '{print $1}' does not produce the expected hash of 7c85d987a917c2a555d1391426978f05. As a result, it prints the line: Well, congratulations!! You fixed my conflict!!... (even though the player has not yet completed the level's challenge of performing the merge and resolving the conflict).

I traced the problem to the fact that the read function in bash on Windows (at least in my configuration) reads a CRLF, and the hash was generated with just a LF.

Can't get beyond 'diff'

When I diff the two commits, I get this...

-Sn The Next Clue Is: YtrydjKsYqebDoI3h bTINUeV6 pTVY8jnK2re HRwwNy25Ps6 u0YChCo5Jtw N3xkH3G nx aGo6yQTW RVZMsf3xk tBL0sG9GAR HQbyGYdqs i6dx1fyIPGJVciz8Z1NzdrvGE CKgkFauXqfKJmas cDLerWvBTRzUikmP2 0sqk2Xhie2DcIv KtCyYTlNx7WxJp6A2yox3r aJX4r7FpUhgsyGIwc prCCNx46GKVgzaerab
+Sn The next clue is: YtrydjKsYqebDoI3h bTINUeV6 pTVY8jnK2re HRwwNy25Ps6 u0YChCo5Jtw N3xkH3G nx aGo6yQTW RVZMsf3xk tBL0sG9GAR HQbyGYdqs i6dx1fyIPGJVciz8Z1NzdrvGE CKgkFauXqfKJmas cDLerWvBTRzUikmP2 0sqk2Xhie2DcIv KtCyYTlNx7WxJp6A2yox3r aJX4r7FpUhgsyGIwc prCCNx46GKVgzaerab

Not clear what I should be doing next. Am I missing something?

Game is too short!

Would you like to share (blog?) how you managed to put this together without going crazy?
Is it kinda automated or did you do everything manually?
I was secretly hoping for an occasion to use git bisect for example.

Making a puzzle game out of it is an awesome idea for learning and it would be great to be able to extend this.

Not really an issue, I just want to say: thank you for this beautiful game!

Have a good life! :)

outputclue.sh not compatible with OS X

The two key issues being OS X's native md5 command is 'md5' not 'md5sum', and the base64 command needs -D to decode the input.

Can see no branches on level 1

After I've cloned the project
$ git branch
shows only the master branch - am I doing something wrong or is the branch simply not there?

Issues with Level 7 not showing up

It seem like level 7 gets skipped, but I see all the information about the level - 7 when I open the file nextclue_input.cpp using the command.
$ cat nextclue_input.cpp

outputclue.sh doesn't work on Windows

Don't want to give away anything, but it's the same error no matter what you use in place of FILE here:

C:\code\git-game>./outputclue.sh FILE 
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Executing a script that we aren't permitted to read without cheating, really?

Setting up a webserver that verifies the merge conflict, and changing the script so that it posts the content to that server would make the script inspect able and avoid setting of security red-flags.

./outputclue.sh not working correctly on Yosemite

Running the ./outputclue.sh script on master results in:

/git-game $ ./outputclue.sh nextclue_input.cpp
./outputclue.sh: line 22: md5sum: command not found
./outputclue.sh: line 22: [: =: unary operator expected
./outputclue.sh: line 22: md5sum: command not found
....

This block of code runs because if [[ "$OSTYPE" = "darwin" ]] fails. In my terminal, $ $OSTYPE returns darwin14.

next step lesson 2

Hi, I did clone the repository and checkout (6402738...). How do I move on to the next level?

Working of Open Badge assignment

Hey @hgarc014,

It was a nice little game but now when I'm done with it, I'm confused that how to use the open badge thing.

It is asking to Attach Evidence as You can attach evidence of your achievement to the badge. Evidence can either be an URL or a file. but I'm not getting it that what it is asking for?

Can you help me here?

repository no longer existed

Got to the step where I need to update origin/keyboard, but it seems that https://github.com/hgarc014/git-game-remote.git no longer exists.

Where is the game gone?

There is nothing in master branch except a license and a readme file, where are the game files?

Issue a openbadge

I haven't complete yet, I'm at bug :)
But It would be nice to issue a badge at the end, see http://openbadges.org/earn

Game is too much fun

I have work to do, @hgarc014, and your game is distracting me.

How do we get our badge?

How do we get our badge?

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