I'm setting up GIT. So far I'm liking it.

To exclude files and directories I added the following to the .git/info/exclude file.

build
_ReSharper*
*.user
*.resharper
*.suo
bin
obj

These sites have been helpful in getting started.

http://lwn.net/Articles/245678/
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html

Git for windows: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list