Easy Git!
eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to…
eg is a nifty piece of work. Are you meeting resistance trying to move your coworkers or friends to Git? (“SVN is good enough.”) Know someone who would love to use GitHub but can’t seem to find the time to learn Git? eg is your answer.
Start with the Easy Git for SVN Users chart.

Then move to the eg cheat sheet:
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Committing works similar to SVN but tries to educate you on the idea of the staging area.
$ eg commit Aborting: You have new unknown files present and it is not clear whether they should be committed. Run 'eg help commit' for details. New unknown files: info.txt
Install it:
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It’s not Subversion, but it’s a step in the Git direction.
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