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Currently the lesson is really overloaded (too much material/too many concepts), and generally teaches bad/dangerous practices (e.g. the conflicts and remote sections are going to cause grumpy collaborators, and while...

type:discussion

In Episode 4, ["Tracking Changes"](http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/04-changes/index.html), the first usage of `git add` was introduced with the sentence > We can tell Git to track a file using git add And after...

type:enhancement
status:waiting for response

Would it make sense to update the section https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice/blame/0f775ae563a09163984e134b068d56928104ee29/_episodes/02-setup.md to something like: > Let's test and review the settings we made just now. Type `git config --global --edit` to open...

status:in progress

The section discussing using `git diff HEAD` states "which is the same as what you would get if you leave out HEAD (try it)" with no explanation as to WHY...

status:need more info

The end of [8 - Collaborating](http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/08-collab/index.html) includes a "Basic Collaborative Workflow". A visual representation of this that connects the actions and commands to the learner's mental model (working, staging, local...

help wanted

Hi, first of all thanks for the software carpentry git lesson. I think it is already great and I only have a minor remark/improvement. In the chapter https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/05-history/index.html there is...

Proposal: I would like to propose to change the order of events when creating a conflict in lesson 9 – "Conflicts". Conflicts are more likely to occur when multiple people...

status:waiting for response

The git-novice workshop is really good, and I got to learn about git fairly sufficiently without prior experience in it. However, the lessons instruct the learner to edit texts as...

Hi! Please see https://github.com/carpentries/lesson-example/issues/234 for background on this suggestion. Cheers :-)

type:discussion
type:enhancement

git status seems to me an important and useful enough command to be included in the lesson objectives.

status:waiting for response