Here's a quick jargon overview for both Subversion (SVN) and Git. This should help you to better understand the counterparts if you're moving from one of the worlds to the other.
| SVN Term | Git Term |
| Checkout | Clone |
| Commit | Commit & Push |
| Update | Pull |
| Merge | Merge, Cherry-Pick, Rebase (beware, different concepts) |
| Shelve | Stash |
| Branch | Branch |
| Switch | Switch/Checkout |
| Revert | Revert |
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