Adding version control to an existing project

Question

I am working on a project that has grown to a decent size, and I am the only developer. We currently don\'t use any version control, but I definitely need to start.

Answer 1

The easy answer is Subversion along with Tortoise SVN.

I've used Subversion with visual studio, and I've implemented it with an existing project. There is a free Visual Studio plugin called Ankh, which I used with some success. However, I have had some issues where Ankh refuses to stay in sync with the real state of the files as reflected in the .svn metadata (it did things like insist a file needed to be updated when tortoise would show me it was up to date). In these instances, a visual studio restart fixed the issues, but that is painful and tedious for me.

Currently, I stopped using Ankh and just work my project as normal in VS and then use Tortoise and windows explorer to check them in/out. This works flawlessly. No VS refreshes or restarts necessary.