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### How could the content be improved? Hello, We've now had the Good Enough Practices Lesson accepted at Carpentries Lab: https://carpentries-lab.github.io/good-enough-practices/ The lesson, particularly the [Keeping Track of Changes episode](https://carpentries-lab.github.io/good-enough-practices/06-track_changes.html),...

Closes #685 Based on the discussion in the issue, I'm limiting the changes to just giving a bit of emphasis on the moment the `git status` command is first used.

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### How could the content be improved? Hi there, I believe learners will have more success with the SSH key creation lesson if we move it from Lesson 7 -...

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### What is the problem? Across the git novice lesson, the time alloted for various episodes seems quite wrong. For example, the [setting up git](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/instructor/02-setup.html) and [ignoring things](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/instructor/06-ignore.html) lessons each...

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### How could the content be improved? In the [part of the git lesson about setting up an ssh key](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/07-github.html#create-an-ssh-key-pair) we should note that when typing in passwords in terminal,...

I noticed that my version of git ( (2.36.1.windows.1) doesn't prompt the user to use git checkout to restore files. It uses git restore. This is much safer, and can't...

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### How could the content be improved? In the [section about removing the `.git` file](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/03-create.html#correcting-git-init-mistakes) if we accidentally did a `git init`, there is a note to use with caution....

### How could the content be improved? In the [ssh setup section](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/aio.html#ssh-background-and-setup), we show how to check if you already have an ssh key set up, and what to do...

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### How could the content be improved? In the [Summary and setup section](https://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/), we say the following (emphasis mine): > Nothing that is committed to version control is ever lost,...

### How could the content be improved? At the end of Episode 4 is a callout titled "Directories" which includes instruction on how directories can be handled, including a creating...