Intro

Git is a version control system. It's more powerful than svn and quite confusing (for starters).

Git Installation

   sudo apt-get install git

UI (there are several possibilities)

   sudo apt-get install git-cola gitk

git clone fromsomeurl
or
git init

git pull

git add file

git commit -m "holla"
git push

git stash # stashes uncommited changes away
git stash apply # gets stash back and applies it

git branch --track thebranch origin/thebranch

switch to a remote branch and track it