Is there a barebones Windows version control system that's suitable for only one guy? [closed]

Answer 1

This is much the same question as Source control system for single developer

The bottom line is: yes there is. More than one.
My opinion is that SVN will do just fine. it does for me in similar cases, as described here: Single serving source control

Answer 2

You could go with Mercurial.

• It's very easy to start working with and there's TortoiseHg which integrates nicely with Windows shell.
• You don't need a server for it as it's a distributed version control system - you can hold a whole repository copy on a flash drive and push/pull changes from it.
• If you wish, you can put hg in a web server mode that makes the repository easily accessible over http.
• As opposed to SVN and CVS, it doesn't spread its metadata directories all over the repository. There's just one .hg directory in repository root.

I use it daily and love it!