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For the love of humanity, pick a better tool to teach: Mercurial. Even teaching SVN would be easier. Both interop with github just fine.

Anything but git. Git was definitely not designed for ease-of-use.

Only Linus and friends need or use 90% of git's features.

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I feel that PyCharm's Git client is just as graphical/easy to use as TortoiseHg was. Version control shouldn't need the command line, it should all be pretty trees. That's the only thing I really preferred about Mercurial. I liked mq patches, but PyCharm's shelf beats the pants off them.

All this git cargo culting among software developers isn't helping. The state of version control hasn't progressed in over a decade when there is clearly room for lots of meaningful improvements. I am not even sure whether git is effectively a regression in disguise.

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