I think tools like github desktop make this unnecessary. I've given some people a quick introduction to git using the desktop app, and they were up and running

I think tools like github desktop make this unnecessary. I've given some people a quick introduction to git using the desktop app, and they were up and running in about 20 minutes. Sometimes something goes horribly wrong, but it's a rarity. I think the worst case scenario encountered was: "No one knows what's wrong, so we'll use a comparison tool and manually merge in the changes from this branch with a bad repo state as a commit."