Over the last years there is always a fair amount of debate on how much time to spend discussing git & github, but it really is a central piece of hackweeks (getting tutorials into a jupyterbook website, and sharing code for projects). At our most recent event and others, there is usually significant interest in ad-hoc git tutorials!
Perhaps we add a bit more material to the 'what to expect page':
https://book-template.hackweek.io/preliminary/index.html#prerequisites
Could link to this great resource :)
https://github.com/uwhackweek/learning-git
And there are problably some new resources worth adding too like these official beginner guides
https://github.blog/tag/github-for-beginners/
cc @jomey