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

I'd recommend two things:

First up, that other server - what happens if your machine dies? the house burns down? etc. Having it on another machine is a good idea from a redundancy point of view.

The second one is WHAT:

If you are very familiar with visual source(un)safe, think about SourceGearVault. It's VERY nice, very fast, and very much a vastly improved "clone" of VSS (ie works the same way from the users POV, not under the hood). Needs SQL server and windows tho (it's .NET + SQL server). Free for 1 user.

Of you are not, then I suggest you do one of two things:

First, get VisualSVN. It's great, works with VS2008 really well. Second, if you MUST run it locally, get VisualSVN server (free!). Make sure you have a good backup plan. Runs on XP/2003/2008/Vista etc.It's just Apache + SVN, under the hood, so it just saves you on the setup - took me 5 mins to install and have it running.

OR, and I prefer this one:

go somewhere like Unfuddle, Dreamhost etc, and get hosting for SVN. It's private, it's fast, and most of all - it's OFFSITE. My dreamhsot account, with something crazy like 500GB of storage and 1-2TB of transfer/month costs about $6/month! There are others which do SVN hosting + bug tracking etc. Look around.

But yeah - SVN is the schizzzznit.you could create a local repository, but I like having a remote, backed up server.

TFS is total, utter overkill for 1 developer (or <5 IMO)