What's a good, free source control system for eclipse android development?

Question

My app code is starting to get unmanageable and I want to start source control, primarily because I need to branch my code.

What are some good systems that you have

Answer 1

I vote for Git

Answer 2

You can set up a project at code.google.com, and use a source code repository provided by them. I think they offer Subversion and Mercurial as source control systems, and I use Subversion.

After you've got that set up, you can just use Subclipse to connect to the repository.

Answer 3

Besides all voting for git I'll vote for the following:

1. If you are willing to use eclipse for android development use SVN or mercurial, because:
   • Both have much better support from eclipse (I belive EGit is still in beta and no public releases are available yet)
   • They are both supported by google code that is excellent source control for open source
   • They both work on all major systems (no offence but git on windows even with MinGW is sometimes creepy)
     

2. If you are not using eclipse:
   • If you are not using windows for development choose Git because:
     • android uses it
     • it is awesome
   • If you do use windows choose:
     • Git if you are not afraid of console
     • Mercurial otherwise

Answer 4

I would also vote for Git. I have little experience with Git and SVN, and I enjoyed Git more. It's fast, it's easy, i didn't have any problems with this. There's good Git repository service github.com, but setting up your own repository is very easy. But you can have some trouble with integrating it with Eclipse :(

Answer 5

If you are not working on a team and you just need version control for yourself, SourceGear Vault is free for a single user and they have a nice Eclipse plug-in.

I use it for Android development and it works like a charm.