Source control system for single developer

Question

What\'s the recommended source control system for a very small team (one developer)?

Price does not matter. Customer would pay :-)
I\'m working on Vista32 with V

Answer 1

Subversion has very low barrier to entry.

TortoiseSVN is a free client, and integrates into your explorer- i.e. in right mouse click menu.

The repository can be just a directory somewhere on your PC or on a network drive. Backing up just means zipping up this directory

There are a few plugins to Visual studio for Subversion, AnkSvn is one I have used, it is free and integrates nicely (i.e it will be smart about moving and deleting files etc)

Subversion is a good choice for one developer.

Update:

Since this post, I've been using Mercurial. It is a Distributed SVN. The 'distributed' aspect may not be directly useful to a sole developer, however it is better at merging and is somewhat faster. There is also a free and good Windows Explorer extension client - Tortoise Hg.

So in summary, if you are the sort of person who will work on many branches at once (doing spikes etc) or if you work on multiple PCs at once and would like full offline access to checkin history on both, then Mercurial. If you just want simple tracking and a well proven and easy to understand solution, then Subversion.