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In the _Ignoring Things_ episode we are creating dummy files and a directory in order to add to .gitignore. Currently, none of the material in this lesson relates to the...

`git checkout` has been confusing for learners (especially when they later discover branching), see https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice/issues/169 for a first episode of this discussion. This summer 2019, git started an experimental feature...

status:in progress

It's not obvious that changing the default editor only applies for commit messages without -m flag. It's mentioned later in episode 4 that commits without the -m flag will open...

type:enhancement

The final image in the [Remotes in GitHub](http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/07-github/index.html) lesson might be improved by including an arrow to show how the pull command works/links the GitHub repository to the local repository....

help wanted

Since no Carpentries lesson teaches Perl, Ruby or focusses on HTML, how about mentioning tools that are relevant for our curriculum? These are suggestions which have been mentioned in a...

status:in progress
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help wanted
type:clarification

This PR resolves #691 and changes all references to `git checkout` to either `git restore` (or `git switch`) as appropriate. I believe I got all the references, but a close...

status:changes requested

I'd like to suggest that Directories and .gitkeep at the very end of Episode 4 - Track Changes be relocated to the beginning of Episode 6 - Ignoring Things and...

Initial email from Matthew Gidden: Hi everyone, I searched the list history and didn't see a similar topic already posted, so apologies if this is a rehash of a previous...

type:discussion

We periodically get concerns about the story behind the lesson (Wolfman and Dracula research planets), [the most recent is discussed in this thread](http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-May/004473.html). I'd say the more frequent complains are...

type:discussion