I commit very often however I rewrite the commits. In other words, I mess with my history and it is a good thing (My commits ain't final, in other words... "I do not commit to my commits").

In SVN I try not to commit too often because I do not want to commit (publish) changes which I may not want to keep.

With git I commit very often in stages. Then I can remove them or change them at a later stage. If I do not do this I will end up with a load of files (e.g. 50+) which has been modified and either I commit them all in one (bad) go or try and separate out each step I've taken the past 12 hours and do decent commit messages (good).

Of course you could commit very often, create new commits to fix errors you've done in recent commits (rather than rewriting history). You could also merge master into feature-x everyday (rather than rebasing), but then you'd have history which looks like chaos and hard to follow.

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Honestly, when I started git I was lost (first VCS I learnt). Until one day I figured out how simple git is to use.