Why Subversion does not suck(blog.assembla.com)

  svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk \
           http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/branches/my-calc-branch \
      -m "Creating a private branch of /calc/trunk."

  git clone git://github.com/mechfish/calc
  cd calc
  git branch my-calc-branch
  git checkout my-calc-branch
  # ... fiddle around, then when it's time to go back to master ...
  git checkout master   # note: no need to cd anywhere

  git push origin my-calc-branch:refs/heads/my-calc-branch

  git config branch.my-calc-branch.remote origin
  git config branch.my-calc-branch.merge refs/heads/my-calc-branch

  git checkout my-calc-branch
  git push

  cd my-directory
  git init
  git add *
  git commit -m "Initial commit"

  cd my-directory
  git commit -a -m "I committed today"