The best thing I did to help me get into using git was set up some aliases, to make it at least pretend it was like Mercurial and only needed the bare minimum number of characters to complete a command (in ~/.gitconfig):

  [alias]
  	st = status
  	d = diff
  	ci = commit
  	sh = stash
  	co = checkout
  	ps = push
  	pl = pull
  	cp = cherry-pick