Is a DVCS useful for one developer?

Question

Or would a conventional client-server VCS be more appropriate? I\'m currently using TortoiseSVN, but I\'m interested in a DVCS, but I\'m not sure if it\'s even a good idea to tr

Answer 1

For a single developer, every VCS will do. I would choose one, that is easy to setup and demands little to no config at all. I personally like Monotone. It was one of the first and I still consider it one of the best ones.

Actually, the most fun I ever had was when using darcs, but it's written in a rather ugly language (Haskell) and it was actually already quite a pain to build it on Mac OS X from source.

Git is said to be a good system, but I dislike that it consists out of multiple binaries and scripts and so on. What I really like about systems like darcs and Monotone is, there is one binary... and that's it. No clutter of binaries, no scripts in this or that language, on binary and it does it all.