When you work with teams, in particular, being competent with your revision control system is mandatory. You'll be surprised by how easy it is to pick up the basics, if you just make yourself do it. The Subversion book is quite good both from a conceptual, as well as specific technical perspective; we've just started moving our projects to git (and I've been using VCS of one form or another for more than a decade), so I don't have a good notion of what the git docs are like for complete VCS newbies.
Anyway, create an account at github, follow the tutorials and docs they provide, and you'll be able to do most everything you need. I don't think Subversion will be going away any time soon, but DVCS is definitely rising quickly, and most new OSS projects are starting on git or another DVCS.