Have to say, so far, I’m loving Git! T’was pretty painless to get started with it and now, with submodules, etc., I’ve actually got a better workflow than I did with SVN (never warmed to externs).

I hear you on .gitignore, had to start using it almost immediately. I actually don’t mind Vim as the default editor for commit messages (prefer it to the context change from Terminal to TextMate). After all, all I do is i for insert, type message, Esc, :wq :)

Will look into rebase and thanks for the heads up on non-git aware apps.

Other things you should do when you start with Git: learn how to use .gitignore, learn how to tell Git what text editor you use (it’ll probably use Vim as a default, but you’ll probably want to switch it to TextMate). One thing I often do is to use a rake task for committing that runs my RSpec tests. You can also use pre-commit hooks to make sure your test suite is run before you can commit, or use something like a Rake, Make or Ant task (or a shell script) to make sure the tests run and pass before you can push. Also, learn about rebase. It’s very powerful and useful.

Also, be aware that some things will not be aware of your ‘.git’ folder while they are aware of .svn or CVS folders. I’ve had a lot of irritation with Hoe, the Ruby gem utility, which keeps deciding to delete my .git folder when I try and publish my gem.

Cool, glad to hear it was useful! And thanks for the pre tag style suggestion, I just implemented it. Looks much nicer indeed. :)

On a different topic, you might want to change your pre tags overflow: auto; so you don’t get the unseemly scroll gutter when you’re not using it.