This is a bit pedantic, but Git isn't an acronym (or all-caps).

Is SVN an acronym either though? SubVersioN?

thanks, i fixed that ;)

I remember when SVN came out that it was designed to fix CVS not as a big improvement over CVS. CVS had some terrible flaws. SVN fixed them. Git was designed to make source code control better. Git is a huge improvement over SVN or CVS. Since it is an improvement you have to do some learning. It is worth it!

I was hit up by several of these gotchas when learning -- I certain wish this article had been available then.