[jerf]

I believe this is generally true, but git happens to sit in a nexus where it is particularly true: You can't hand someone the solution to a problem they've never had.

I have a git training I developed for work that focuses not on telling everyone what the solutions to their problems are, but walking them into those problems, getting into detached head, getting into branching and rebasing problems, and then explaining how to get back out of them. I've gotten generally positive feedback from this.

If nothing else, at the very least it convinces them that when they see the "detached head" message, they can come get help and I'll be very sympathetic to what is going on, because I told them up front that I expect this sort of thing to happen and it doesn't mean they're bad people for getting into this state, and we can at least have a sane conversation about what they did to get there and what they want to happen.

It's probably particularly hard to try to tell people the solutions to problems they've never had when they also don't even know what's going on around them and what a problem even is.