It's easy to mess up a somewhat complex repo in git, but for versioning really simple things like rsync scripts or dot-files, where you have one committer, one

It's easy to mess up a somewhat complex repo in git, but for versioning really simple things like rsync scripts or dot-files, where you have one committer, one branch, and a linear commit log, git's pretty easy. git init, git commit -am, gitk to view history or diff, done.