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copied!<p>I've recently started using <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/" rel="noreferrer">Mercurial</a> for some of my work. It's a distributed system like Git but seems easier to use and seems far better supported on Windows, the latter of which was crucial for me.</p> <p>With distributed source code control every user has a complete local copy of the repository. If you're the only person working on a project, as you say you often are, this can simplify things a lot since you just create your own repository and do all your commits etc. locally. If you want to bring on other developers later you can just push the full contents of your repository - current versions and all history - to another system, either on a shared server or directly on to another users' workstation.</p> <p>If you're working only with a local repository remember you'll need a also backup solution as there isn't a copy of all your code on a shared server. </p> <p>I think that Mercurial has lots of other advantages over Subversion, but it does have a big downside which has already been mentioned as a plus point of Subversion: there a <strong>lots</strong> of third party tools and integrations for Subversion. As Mercurial hasn't been around nearly as ong the choice is much less. On Windows it seems that you either have to use the command line (my choice) or the <a href="http://tortoisehg.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer" title="Tortoise Hg">TortoiseHg</a> Windows Explorer integration.</p>

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