Here are a few links that might be helpful to people learning git. Its culturally different than CVS; but once you learn it, there's no turning back. The ability to experiment with local branches, back up, rewrite history, and only publish the sanitized history is quite liberating.
http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git http://progit.org/book/ http://git-scm.com/documentation http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html
My suggestions - always have `gitk --all` loaded for the repo you're working on - update (not reload) gitk after modifying any branches or tags; this leaves the old objects displayed - `git reset --hard $OLDSHA1` can clean many messes, letting you try again. - reload gitk to hide deleted branches you're comfortable with losing - learn by playing around with local clones of a larger repository - install some of the git contribs, especially git-completion.bash and git-new-workdir
Later, Daniel