ANNOUNCE: Xfce 4.10pre1 released

[Ray Andrews]

On 08/04/12 01:32 AM, gymka wrote:
> hour ago i installed GIT version of xfce, and don't had any
> problems... soo my suggestion: install git versions:) everything there
> works and you not depend on peoples which makes tarballs.
>
>
I'd like to man up and try the latest but all I know how to do is use 
apt-get or synaptic. Can someone either explain 'git' or point me to 
some document that will get me going?