Apparently I'm warned when I do this using SmartGit; if you are unable to safely use the CLI tool, maybe you should switch to a safer tool and leave the CLI tools to power users?
Way to suggest only incompetent people lose data like this.
But yes, GUIs do prevent this to a decent extent. Unfortunately git is not a tool for which switching to a GUI before you're comfortable with the CLI is a good idea. SVN is, but not git. I say this from personal experience as a TortoiseGit user. You really gotta learn the command-line first.
