Equivalent of "svn checkout" for git?
git clone is more of an analogue to svn checkout than git checkout. git checkout just checks out a branch or commit from your local repository. git clone makes a new copy of a remote repository.
This is exactly what I wanted:
SVN
$ svn checkout svn://foo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk foo# make your changes$ svn commit -m "my first commit"GIT
$ git clone git@github.com:pjhyett/foo.git# make your changes$ git commit -a -m "my first commit"$ git push