The Geek Stuff published an introduction to GIT on Linux

GIT is the most versatile distributed version control system.

The way GIT tracks and handles file changes is very efficient and different than how other version control software tracks the changes (including CVS and Subversion).

This article is for those who are new to GIT. This is a jump-start guide that will show you how to install GIT from source, create a new project, commit changes to the GIT repository.

  Introduction to GIT on Linux