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 |