On Apr 30, 8:21 am, CM <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A lone developer using such a VCS reaps the benefits of this by getting > > good merging support. > > While we're on the topic, when should a lone developer bother to start > using a VCS? At what point in the complexity of a project (say a hobby > project, but > a somewhat seriousish one, around ~5-9k LOC) is the added > complexity of bringing a VCS into it worth it?
When you hit your first bug? Ok seriously, when you hit your first serious bug maybe? I am a bit surprised that no one has mentioned rcs so far Not an option if you are not on a *ix system and not something I am specifically recommending. [I grew up on rcs 15 years ago but not used it much of late] You may want to look at rcs if you are in the space where you want: -- something better than tarballs -- no pretensions beyond single-user, single-machine, (almost)single- file usage (ie small scale) -- something that integrates nicely with emacs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
