Best Local Version Control software?

1. So I just grabbed myself a 1.5TB external hdd, and thought a good use of a bit of it would be for a bit of version control. So, what's the best way to do this? I'm a bit of a cli fanatic, so the better command line options the better!

   
   

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   Phoshi
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

2. For local version control, it doesn't get better than git. Everything is almost instant on your local machine.

   
   

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   Enabeta
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

3. You can always use syncback, it has versioned folders. Or dropbox.

   
   

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   jj128
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

4. Whatever you do, I would not recommend subversion - it's a great source control tool, but it's pretty slow. Git is probably your best option.

   
   

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   howtogeek
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

5. If you're intent on subversion then probably tortoise svc, or as per jj128 dropbox is a great way to go.

   
   

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   mrfiresnow
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

6. You might find Fossil a suitable and not overly complex local version control alternative.

   http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

   
   

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   evan
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

7. I think either git or mercurial are the tools you're looking for, especially when you're doing a lot of branching and merging. For a single-user straight work subversion is easier to understand (for beginners) and follows a classic way of versioning control. My personal fav is atm mercurial (short: hg) in conjunction with tortoisehg.
   But I must admit, the choice was only be made by the better windows integration of hg compared to git about a year ago...

   
   

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   t0mt0m
   

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   Posted 8 months ago

   
   

8. +1 for Dropbox

   
   

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   thekat
   

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   Posted 7 months ago

   
   

9. For personal use dropbox is great!

   
   

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   limbo
   

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   Posted 7 months ago

   
   

10. @jj128: do I have versioned folders in Dropbox for an unlimited time (with the free 2GB version?). If it's so, than I can also give a +1 for dropbox :)

    
    

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    t0mt0m
    

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    Posted 7 months ago

    
    

11. Mercurial would be my choice. While it might not be as flexible as git it takes a lot less to setup and seems to do everything I could ever want.

    
    

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    sirikan
    

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    Posted 7 months ago

    
    

12. Filehamster is the easiest I've ever used:

    http://www.filehamster.com/

    
    

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    spirion
    

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    Posted 7 months ago

    
    

13. Perforce

    http://www.perforce.com - The free evaluation never expires and lets you run a local server with 2 users for free (5 work spaces each I think). I run it at home for my Picts, my MP3s, my personal wiki backups, and all of my important docs.

    IMHO their CLI is better than the GUI.

    
    

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    boter2099
    

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    Posted 7 months ago