The current version of Try Git isn't open-sourced. You can contact us (Code School) directly to report any issues: http://www.codeschool.com/support

1) That's true. Although sending beginners into a less/vi commit interface that is even more bewildering than the basic shell is not a good way to concisely introduce people to a new tool. The hardest part of teaching is what you chose not to teach. 2) We purposefully used the GUI file browser (My Octocat Repository) at the bottom to avoid having to systematically do `git status` in order to check the state of the repo.