I'm trying to display the modifications in the last commit. To de so I'm trying to use gl history.

The verbose option provides a nice display of changes.
Unfortunately the -l (limit) option is apparently limited.

It seam that it always start counting history from the first commit. I couldn't find how to display the history starting from a specific commit, or HEAD - x commits.
An op

Issue #409 introduced a new function to indicate which systems support symlinks:

(defun straight--windows-os-p ()
  "Check if the current operating system is Windows."
  (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin)))

cygwin should not be in this list, it supports symlinks. It runs on windows-os, but in its own environment, with its own filesystem including /tmp, /proc, .. and its ow

The first episode is more a description of "a" version control system, rather than of Git. I think that's useful as this is the first exposure of many learners to the concept. Also, the model based on diffs in not completely accurate for Git. A compromise to be both accurate and keep it simple could be to change the second objective to reflect this. So, what about?

Understand the basics