Start with svn or mercurial to get a feel for what it's all about. You can always step up to git when they don't cut it anymore.
exactly - if he starts out with something like git, he's probably going to burn out and have a bad impression of source control, which doesn't help anybody.
exactly - if he starts out with something like git, he's probably going to burn out and have a bad impression of source control, which doesn't help anybody.