Just a hint, it's a lot easier than Subversion. My love for Subversion grows colder each day.

In your repository root directory you'll want to create a file called .gitignore. In that file you'll want to specify files and folders to ignore. For example.

Ignore the entire Magento /media folder.

media/**/*

The root repository .gitignore file will act as a global but can be overridden in subdirecties by creating a .gitignorein those directories.

A Gotcha!
Empty directories do not get tracked by Git. If you want them to be tracked, they need to have something in them. Usually doing a touch .gitignore is enough to keep the folder tracked.

This one stumped me for a little bit, anyway, it pays to read.

Credit:
http://www.gitready.com/beginner/2009/01/19/ignoring-files.html
http://github.com/guides/ignore-for-git

So today I spent an ungodly amount of time trying to figure out why my Magento module, that worked just fine on my local MAMP installation, didn't work on the Linux staging server.

I thought it was the cache, so I reloaded the cache, changed the cache backend, then I thought it might be a but, then I thought it might be the layouts. The solution? Case. Mac is not case sensitive, Linux is.

If you want to add all the unversioned files at once to subversion, then you either have to type in all the paths or try this.

Add this to your .bash_profile

svn_add_all(){
svn status | grep "^?" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs svn add
}

Then typing svn_add_all will add all the files underneith your current working directory.

svn propset svn:ignore '*' .
http://www.heavymind.net/2007/08/29/the-nightmare-has-returned-with-new-name-svnignore/

Since I'm still a newbie at SVN, getting the hang of Vendor Branching has taken me a little longer than I'm willing to admit.

Here are some resources that I found helpful.