Personal Source Control - Which One Are You Using?

Development October 31st, 2006

I’ve been trying to find a decent source control system to use for some time now without real success.

I used to have only one machine, with Visual SourceSafe and everything was great. Today, when working on personal projects I have about 3-4 machines I use (Home, Laptop, Work, Parents home) and managing the files on all these machines is becoming unconformable.
Currently I use a Visual SourceSafe database on my main machine (home) and I sync the files between the computers using FolderShare. I don’t like this because:

All the machines except the main one work in disconnected mode
I can only check-in\check-out files on my main machine at home so usually I just do the following (which is bad):
- Check-out everything on my main machine.
- Work on my other machines.
- Wait for everything to sync back to the main machine.
- Check-in everything.
I can’t manage changes this way…
Using FolderShare is risky - A corrupt file in one machine will sync to all the rest.
Visual SourceSafe web access is crap! I’ve spent hours trying to get this thing to work…

So, I’m currently looking for a new system to hold my files. A system that could:

Manage versions, changes, branches and everything else a modern source control system supports.
Accessible via http.
Integrates with Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Team System is perfect for my needs but I’ll probably have to mortgage everything I own just to get it working so the last requirement is - it has to be cheap.

So, any suggestions? Which source control system are you using for your personal projects?