Real Time Version Control Software

Question

There's no shortage of traditional version control software, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require me to constantly commit. In other words, I am searching for background software that automatically keeps a history of all files in a directory. If possible, I would also like to be able to add commit notes myself for benchmarks later on.

I have no preference on whether or not the solution is a web service or a local service that I host myself, as long as it is free or has a reasonable one-time fee (no subscriptions please). Performance and Hard Drive Usage are not issues.

I hope that I'm not being too specific with my request. I searched the web for solutions, but I could not find any software that does what I want. For compatibility, I have Windows 7 64-bit and an AMD processor.

Answer 1

You should consider Dropbox. It's not strictly version control software, but it runs in the background and syncs your files to the cloud.

They give you 2GB of storage for free (more if you pay a subscription), and from their website, you can view the different versions of the files in your Dropbox folder.

Answer 2

I don't know of any software or services that do this.

I did come up with a quick idea though
This idea seems like a bit of a hack and it is right off the top of my head (so issues may come up in implementing).

Create an app/service that uses the FileSystemWatcher to detect changes/creation/deletion to the location(s) that you want to version.
When a detection is made, do [bat/cmd/powershell/code/ect] that uses the command line (or other) interface of [insert version control software here] to do a commit.

I think it's fairly straight forward. I think it's easy to implement, but that's the danger of 'top of the head' ideas. A direction to look for rolling your if nothing else. :)