What version-control system is most trivial to set up and use for toy projects?

Question

I teach the third required intro course in a CS department. One of my homework assignments asks students to speed up code they have written for a previous assignment. Fact

Answer 1

I would say something like Git might fit the bill:

• As it's a distributed system, you don't need to have a central repository, the repos exist with the source directory
• It is easy to create patch files that can be mailed and applied.
• Although it might seem that git is difficult to use, the basic ideas of committing, merging, adding and removing files are not that hard to learn.

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