[cnvogel]

One of the big advantages of Git over Subversion in a teaching context is that, due to it's decentralized nature, every git repository is fully self-contained and stands on its own.

So for experimenting it's much easier to create a git repository in one directory of your (Windows/Linux/MacOS/...) home directory, add files, then clone it to a second directory, change things, push back, ... You don't have to bother setting up a subversion server!