Adding version control to an existing project

Question

I am working on a project that has grown to a decent size, and I am the only developer. We currently don\'t use any version control, but I definitely need to start.

Answer 1

I use mercurial on my desktop and I love it. Creating the repository is super easy...

hg init /path/to/repository

Add the files...

hg add /folder/pattern  

OR

hg add FILE

Then you just commit...

hg commit

And you're up and running.

The other great thing is when I want to sync to my laptop it's just...

hg pull //desktop_name/path/to/repo/  
hg update

The thing that I like about subversion is the pluggin for Visual Studio, I stay on top of my updates more when the status icons are starring me in the face all of the time. The pluggin may definitely make up for the hassel of setting the svn repository up if you're going to be working with the one project a lot.