So I think it's ready that I start looking into a version control system - problem is they all seem so goddam difficult! What I want is ideally the following:

 

1 - A free service (or very cheap)

2 - Hosted, cloud based repositories

3 - Private, rather than public/open source (this is my main issue with Github, as far as I can see)

4 - Super simple and basic - I don't need many features

5 - Integration with Eclipse (not so important)

6 - Collaboration not important, only need 1 user

 

I would be interested to know what others have done here, and if you know of any tutorials for any brain-dead people like me to follow. I tried Bit bucket/mercurial/tortoiseHg but got so entirely confused by the installation process that I gave up

 

Thanks all

github is only public if you have a free account, you can pay for private repositories.

 

If you only need 1 user, why not try using bazaar (http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/) you can run it on your own PC or you can run it on a server. I think its pretty basic once you get your head around it and there is an eclipse plugin. I don't use the plugin personally, I just update and commit whenever I need to from the eclipse remote shell.

 

You could also replicate cloud storage by syncing the local repositories folder to a cloud like windows live, ubuntu1, iCloud, etc. if you don't want to run it on a server.

Well I certainly like their tagline: Bazaar Explorer - Version Control for Human Beings

 

Thanks, I will give it a look

Assembla offers free private SVN repositories and is probably the easiest of the widely known ones. There's tones of SVN tutorials out there and a great tool called TortoiseSVN for a GUI.

 

 

Hope it helps

Chris

imho svn will work for you, it is easy to setup with standard apache over the webdav, so any vps or dedicated server or cloud like amazon ec2 will work. It also has a great support on linux, windows, mac and there is plenty of plugins for Eclipse