K.E. Koziar

I think in this continuing discussion, it might be worth creating a branch to develop an alternative. Regarding stories and cognitive load. Regardless of what we include as text in...

I think there are two challenges presented here. The first challenge is - as with all Carpentries lessons - to not add extra content or time to the lesson. The...

The second challenge is to not overburden learners with advanced knowledge that doesn't meet the objectives of the lesson. The lesson isn't motivating learners to choose between a centralized and...

As an aside: I really wish we could integrate the phrase "distributed merging," because I think that's really the essence of DVCS. It's not that all repositories are equal; they...

Hello, @ebrahimifard. Thank you for your comment. A guiding principle of lesson development in The Carpentries is to [reduce cognitive load on learners](https://cdh.carpentries.org/guiding-principles.html). In everyday language, `git diff` does "[show...

I think making the change from Open Science to Open Research is a good suggestion. I happily welcome a PR which makes this change. (as an aside, PRs should be...

Related to https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice/pull/587, which might provide a solution.

The wording of the lesson reflects that in practice the terms are used interchangeably.

The beginning of that episode says > You can refer to the _most recent commit_ of the working directory by using the identifier `HEAD`. Which sets up the next section...

Thanks, @murraycadzow, for making a note of that, and following up with git-for-windows. I saw the same issue, not in git, but a unix class I recently taught. I used...