Updates to early setup

connect-git-github.Rmd

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ Objective: make sure that you can pull from and push to GitHub from your compute
 
 I do not explain all the shell (Appendix \@ref(shell)) and Git commands in detail.
 This is a black box diagnostic / configuration exercise.
-In later chapters and in live workshops, we revisit these operations with much more narrative.
+In later chapters and in live workshops, we revisit these operations with much more narrative and discussion of alternative workflows.
 
-I assume you've decided whether to use HTTPS (see chapter \@ref(https-pat) or SSH (see chapter \@ref(ssh-keys)) and you've prepared your credential. 
+I assume you've decided whether to use HTTPS (see chapter \@ref(https-pat)) or SSH (see chapter \@ref(ssh-keys)) and you've prepared your credential. 
 
 ## Make a repo on GitHub
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ cat(res, sep = '\n')
 
 ## Clone the repo to your local computer
 
-We have a few ways to do this: with command line Git or via RStudio.
+We have a few ways to do this: with command line Git or via RStudio (or, eventually, usethis).
 
 ### Clone with command line Git
 

connect-rstudio-git-github.Rmd

@@ -18,10 +18,14 @@ We assume the following:
   * You've confirmed that you can push to / pull from GitHub from the command line (chapter \@ref(push-pull-github)).
 
 You will also need a test repository on GitHub.
+If you don't have a suitable test repository on GitHub, follow the instructions in the next section.
 
-If you just completed the previous chapter, [Connect to GitHub], that will be perfect!
+If you just completed the previous chapter, [Connect to GitHub], that repo will be perfect!
 However, I encourage you to delete the *local* repository, so you can experience how we use RStudio to clone it and get a local copy.
-Delete the folder corresponding to the local repo any way you like.
+This is a actually a workflow we refer to elsewhere (see \@ref(burn) as "burn it all down".
+It's a deeply pragmatic coping strategy if your local Git repo is goofed up, but the version on GitHub is pretty current.
+
+Delete the folder corresponding to the **local repo** any way you like.
 It's just a regular directory on your computer.
 Here's how to do that in the shell, if current working directory is `myrepo`:
 
@@ -30,8 +34,6 @@ cd ..
 rm -rf myrepo/
 ```
 
-If you don't have a suitable test repository on GitHub, follow the instructions in the next section.
-
 ## Make a repo on GitHub
 
 ```{r echo = FALSE, results = "asis"}