Suggestions please for a home version control system

Question

I have a home project that really needs to be in Source Control. I tried installing Subversion, which I have some experience with, but couldn\'t get it working. I don\'t parti

Answer 1

It's not really in vogue anymore but I've had great success using CVS for version control. I keep a 'code' folder with all my code snippets in various languages, as well as all my personal home projects in a CVS repository. CVS is older and doesn't work as well as other systems with renaming or restructuring the folders/files. On the flip side, the fact that it's been around so long means there are many ports and GUI applications for it, as well as integration packages for IDEs, etc. I've been very happy with it for the past several years that I've been using it, despite any shortcomings.