One night 4 months ago, I found myself terrified by the reality that I due to what was happening with our clients, I needed to fork the codebase. And I was on svn. Ouch.

I had postponed this moment as long as possible using the svn-without-branches approach. But that wasnt going to help me going fwd. That night I figured I had no choice but to plunge into git asap. I was not looking forward to it AT ALL; It seemed at best a necessary cost.

Once I decided to, it took me under 3 days to mostly "get" git and be productive. (And I would not say I am the quickest learner.) Now I would never, ever, ever go back, even for tiny projects.

Key resources for me: - gitcasts for the basics - git channel on IRC for odd questions - git internals from peepcode for a more solid understanding

Best of luck!