When teaching programming classes it's awful trying to figure out every IDE's git interface that my students are using. Each IDE puts the buttons in very different layouts and they even change the names of the buttons because they don't like the way git itself named operations. It's untenable to know them all and actually be efficient and helpful as the instructor.

Instead, I say they're welcome to use the IDE, but the class materials use the canonical underlying command line tools and terminology. They just need to search for how to translate the real git interface to however their chosen tool does the same operation, but it's up to them to figure it out.

When they do ask for help, I bring up the terminal (usually even inside the IDE) and run the git commands just like we went over in class.

Damn I hate with a passion the IDE interactions with source control software. I may make use of the visual information they give me, but I still execute the commands in the console.