Issue on setting up a Git repo exercise – Clarification needed

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Describe the bug

Issue on Introduction to Git: Exercise - Try out Git

In the section “Set up your Git repository”, in step 3 and for Git version 2.28.0 or later: It seems that both git init --initial-branch=main and git init -b main commands initialize a new repository and set the name of the default branch to main. So, the user should use only one of these commands.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. In Cloud Shell, type git –version to check the GitHub version. (Git version used when reporting this issue: 2.33.4)
2. Define user’s name and email using

   git config --global user.name "<USER_NAME>"
   git config --global user.email "<USER_EMAIL>"
   

3. Create a folder named Cats.

   mkdir Cats
   

4. Change to the project directory.

   cd Cats
   

5. If you're running Git version 2.28.0 or later, use the following commands to initialize your new repository and set the name of the default branch to main.

   git init --initial-branch=main
   git init -b main
   

6. See the output in cloud shell.

Expected behavior

It seems that the user can use either git init --initial-branch=main or git init -b main to initialize their new repo and set the name of the default branch to main.

Based on Git documentation, these two commands are equivalent.
If you use git init --initial-branch=main (or git init -b main) and then git status, you get the following output in cloud shell.

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/<user>/Cats/.git/

On branch main
No commits yet
nothing to commit (create/copy files and use "git add" to track)

(I am a beginner in Git, but it seems that the repo is initialized correctly.)

Screenshots

Output if you use both commands:

Output if you use only one of the above commands (expected output):

Based on this issue, the content can be modified as follows.

There is also a mistake in the name of the branch in the next step of the instructions (Step 4). The current branch is named main and not master. The instructions should be modified as follows.
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