What is the best VCS Solution for Windows? [closed]

Question

My code base is getting quite big and it's difficult to organize all the different branches using just directories, I was wondering what would be a decent version control system for my own personal use that works (with little hassle) on Windows?

PS: I'm not looking for hosted VCS like GitHub, SourceForge or Google Code.

Answer 1

If you're setting something up just for yourself, a DVCS (d for distributed) version control system is going to be significantly easier to get set up than Subversion. (Edit: I stand corrected, TortoiseSVN makes setting up a repository easy. Even still, I'd go with a DVCS unless you already know SVN and want to stick with it. I find them much less hassle for smaller projects, and if you're using it on more than one machine the whole thing is backed up on both in case of HD issues.)

Any of Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar are fine choices in general. Git on Windows still doesn't have a native client, although there are ones that work decently through emulators, so I'd not go with that. Mercurial is quite easy to install on Windows (with TortoiseHg for shell integration if you want it), and I believe Bazaar is as well. I'd go with Mercurial over Bazaar if I didn't know either and was going to pick one simply because it's more widely used.

This SO question is about Git/Mercurial/Bazaar on Windows.

Answer 2

Subversion

• Its popular and has a large community.
• Branching and tagging is easy.
• Its free and open source.

Also, download TortoiseSVN, it gives you a nice graphical interface and has Windows Shell integration so you can right-click on files and folders in Explorer and perform VCS operations.