Thanks for the suggestion Victor, however I've only ported git to this environment; the most I;ve used it is to run 'git clone' to pull source from a repo. The recommendation from the mobile-sig mailing list is...given my lack of familiarity with VCS..is to attempt to port and work with Mercurial.  If doing so starts to take too much bandwidth I'll fall back to git and the article you linked.

Side Note: I cannot emphasize enough how little I know about how to use git and most of the other tools I've ported to this environment. My goal was to get as many of the 'standard' Linux utilities running in this environment, then start learning them.