[splicer]

Rather than these n00b tutorials, I recommend reading "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon, available for free here: http://git-scm.com/book

If you prefer a video, try "Getting Git" by Scott Chacon: http://vimeo.com/14629850

Coming from a Subversion & Perforce background, I was initially very confused by Git. There were two things that finally switched-on the old lightbulb for me:

a) Scott's book

b) Actively using Git for all of my personal projects (e.g. small school assignments and code experiments), without using a remote repository. If you defer learning about remote repositories for now, I'm sure the light will switch-on for you as well :)

[Domenic_S]

b) glosses over what I've found to be one of the biggest brain-twisters in git - working with remotes.

[splicer]

Exactly: don't tackle remotes until you've learned the fundamentals of git, otherwise you'll be stuck with a big brain twister. If you start dealing with remotes right off the bat, like I initially did, you'll find git very frustrating and weird to work with. I kept treating git like it was svn, and just didn't get it. If you learn git without remotes first, the way git handles remotes will make way more sense to you once you finally explore that functionality.