Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 1010

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Quote from bluematrix:

I had a look at some virtual machine pricing and it can get expensive pretty quick (I'm on a super budget).. can you have TFS and SQL server on the same VM or is there some limitations? thanks again for your input, I'm looking into it now - it also seems to be the best integration for VS which is what I need.

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Registered: May 2012
Posts: 336

if you just want simple version control subversion is the easiest for single user single trunk.

git is easy to branch and merge but has a learning curve. I have a ton of alias's setup for it because of everything that you can do.

Registered: Dec 2008
Posts: 557

Forget SVN.

Git or Mercurial is a better bet in 2012.

Git works fine on Windows. There are loads of hosted Git solutions to keep your code securely e.g. Github.

Or keep everything on your own server or just version locally (read: a server is not necessary)

For beginners there is TortoiseGit which is a Windows shell integration tool for Git (similar to TortoiseSVN)

Git also works fine with Visual Studio and most other IDEs.

Yes, there is a learning curve however IDE integration hides a lot of the details from you. However, it's always best to learn the tool from the command line initially so you know what's going - if you don't like learning technical things then perhaps you're in the wrong industry.

Registered: Sep 2006
Posts: 384

IMO it really depends what you want to do, if you're just running a personal projects SVN is great. I've used SVN with multi-gigabyte code bases and never had a problem. GIT is more complex model, really aimed at running distributed teams. In reality either will do the job fine.

Registered: Nov 2005
Posts: 568

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Quote from 2rosy:

if you just want simple version control subversion is the easiest for single user single trunk.

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Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 131

Gents,

thank you all for your thoughts. I found all of them useful, in addition to everything I read on the net. I have made a decision.

I wanted something that:

1. Super simple and user friendly
2. Fast and intuitive and not expensive (free if possible)
3. Windows based
4. Had a good integration with VS

I have chosen Mercurial. It really fits my thinking and style. Very easy to set up and there is no server needed.

I installed using TortoiseHG (http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/) and VisualHG (http://visualhg.codeplex.com/).

Installation took literally 5min. I was able to create a repository and clone to a remote network drive in 5min. So was basically up and running in about 10min.

Edit: Mercurial can actually be run in a client-server fashion using http://rhodecode.org, although I'm not fan of managing servers.

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