Making it a little more explicit what the commands being executed are.

simple-setup.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# A function to make a statement.
 declaim () {
     echo
     echo ${*}
@@ -7,6 +8,35 @@ declaim () {
     echo
 }
 
+# A function to print the git command to be executed and then to
+# execute it
+git_command() {
+  # Print out the command.
+  echo
+  echo    "git command: ${*}"
+
+  # Some variable initialisations
+  COMMANDSTRING="${*}"
+  counter=0
+  UNDERLINESTRING=""
+
+  # Build UNDERLINESTRING to be a string of '-' characters the same
+  # length of all the options passed in.
+  while [ ${counter} -lt ${#COMMANDSTRING} ]
+  do
+    UNDERLINESTRING="${UNDERLINESTRING}-"
+    counter=$(( ${counter} + 1 ))
+  done
+
+  # Print the pretty underline
+  echo -n "             "
+  echo ${UNDERLINESTRING}
+  echo
+
+  # Execute the command.
+  eval ${*}
+}
+
 SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd $(dirname ${0}); pwd)
 
 REPO_DIR=${SCRIPT_DIR}/simpleRepo
@@ -23,10 +53,11 @@ mkdir -vp ${REPO_DIR}
 cd ${REPO_DIR}
 
 declaim "Initialising it as a git repository"
-git init .
+git_command git init ${REPO_DIR}
 
-git config --local user.name "Gaius Julius Caesar"
+declaim "Setting user.name and user.email for this local repository"
-git config --local user.email "gjcaesar@pontifexmaximus.rm"
+git_command git config --local user.name "\"Gaius Julius Caesar\""
+git_command git config --local user.email gjcaesar@pontifexmaximus.rm
 
 declaim "Creating a text file"
 cat <<EOF > information.md
@@ -38,27 +69,27 @@ This is a file for demonstration purposes
 EOF
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The first commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit1"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit1\""
 
 declaim "Updating the text file"
 echo "This is a second line of information." >> information.md
 echo >> information.md
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The second commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit2"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit2\""
 
 declaim "Updating the text file for the second time"
 echo "This is a third line of information." >> information.md
 echo >> information.md
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The third commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit3"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit3\""
 
 declaim "Creating and checking out the Rel1 branch"
-git checkout -b Rel1
+git_command git checkout -b Rel1
 
 declaim "Updating the text file on the Rel1 branch"
 cat <<EOF >> information.md
@@ -70,8 +101,8 @@ This is more information added as part of Rel1
 EOF
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The fourth commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit4"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit4\""
 
 declaim "Updating the text file on the Rel1 branch again"
 mv -v information.md{,.hold}
@@ -79,12 +110,12 @@ cat information.md.hold | sed 's/of Rel1$/of Rel1./' > information.md
 rm information.md.hold
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The fifth commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit5"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit5\""
 
 declaim "Creating and checking out the Rel2 branch"
-git checkout master
+git_command git checkout master
-git checkout -b Rel2
+git_command git checkout -b Rel2
 
 declaim "Updating the text file on the Rel2 branch"
 mv information.md{,.hold}
@@ -99,8 +130,8 @@ cat information.md.hold >> information.md
 rm information.md.hold
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The sixth commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit6"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit6\""
 
 declaim "Updating the text file on the Rel2 branch again"
 mv information.md{,.hold}
@@ -108,10 +139,10 @@ cat information.md.hold | sed 's/of Rel2$/of Rel2./' > information.md
 rm information.md.hold
 
 declaim "Adding and commiting that text file. The seventh commit"
-git add information.md
+git_command git add information.md
-git commit -m "commit7"
+git_command git commit -m "\"commit7\""
 
 declaim "Checking out master"
-git checkout master
+git_command git checkout master
 
-git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all
+git_command git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all