changes md symbol used for listing items

[dpshelio]

This is something that I always forget and only remember when I'm teaching it and encountered as recently @krishnakumarg1984 reminded me.

Markdown accepts either - or * however, in this material, the -
causes confusion when looking at diffs as you'd get things like:

 - avocado
-- lemon
+- lime

making the - from the diff misunderstood with the - of the list.

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The following changes were observed in the rendered markdown documents:

 02-setup.md                          |  12 +-
 03-create.md                         |  88 +++++----
 04-changes.md                        | 238 +++++++++++++------------
 05-history.md                        | 335 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 06-ignore.md                         | 100 +++++------
 07-github.md                         |  86 +++++----
 08-collab.md                         |  44 ++---
 09-conflict.md                       | 244 +++++++++++++++----------
 12-citation.md                       |  28 ++-
 13-hosting.md                        |   3 +-
 14-supplemental-rstudio.md           |   8 +-
 discuss.md                           | 130 +++++++-------
 fig/git-freshly-made-github-repo.svg |   4 +-
 fig/git_staging.svg                  |   2 +-
 fig/github-add-collaborators.png     | Bin 100892 -> 232665 bytes
 fig/github-collaboration.svg         |  10 +-
 fig/github-repo-after-first-push.svg |   6 +-
 index.md                             |   8 +-
 instructor-notes.md                  |   8 +-
 md5sum.txt                           |  28 +--
 20 files changed, 771 insertions(+), 611 deletions(-)

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⏱️ Updated at 2024-08-14 16:11:42 +0000

[tobyhodges]

I am a big fan of this suggested change! 🎉

[dpshelio]

It's included into #1013 to avoid conflicts.