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After naming all of the directories lgthw_git_whatever the Git Add Interactive section then starts using a directory called 2.2.1. There's also inconsistency in whether git is in the directory name or not (and since the whole thing is about git it seems superfluous).

Readers are told to hit q to exit during the section on detached HEAD, but they've already struggled past the more (or is it less) style output by then (when they do git log after cloning the shutit repo). Anybody used to a *nix command line will likely already know how to deal with more, but Windows users with git bash might be out of their depth the first time they run git log.

$ git log
Hit q to exit the log output.

In the stash section the commit message is 'Some changes I am not sure about' because I'm would cause issues with quoting, but the git diff shown below is +Some changes I'm not sure about...

Besides getting consistency between parts of the text it might be worth explicitly tackling how to deal with saying I'm in a commit message (or didn't or doesn't etc.).

Surely the point here is to return to the tag created earlier (and discover how tags are referenced once they've been applied)

The output from git status should be HEAD detached at e36355ed

$ git checkout e36355ed00ac3af009d7113a9dd281c269a79afd
Note: checking out 'e36355ed00ac3af009d7113a9dd281c269a79afd'.
[...]
Read the remaining text carefully and slowly, and make sure you’ve tried to understand what it all
means.
Back to our best friend git status:
$ git status
HEAD detached at 76d43b6