Cousin Stanley wrote:
I was (and I suppose still am) a huge fan of subversion. I loved RCS, hated CVS, and found subversion to be a God-sendI started using git about 3 weeks ago .... ....William .... Under Debian Etch I see the following packages listed ....git-arch git-core git-cvs git-svnWhich git package are you using ?From your comments I'm guessing it's not the cvs variety .... :-)
git-core provides the core git packages. The other three are tools for migrating data from arch, cvs, and svn,respectively. The core-tutorial (/usr/share/doc/git-doc/core-tutorial.txt) in git-doc
is a good starting point.