Over the past couple of days, I have reviewed several beginner tutorials on git and am now going to try to adapt to a workflow with a drupal 7 site. Because of the complexity of working with the sql database that drupal relies on for content, I will initially concentrate on simple file updates as with css or templates, or image file additions.
I will compose the html for content updatess in coda and save them as html files to use a staging for content updates also.