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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
But with one or two people working on a single program, formal version control is essentially overkill.
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To each their own, of course, but I disagree. I use version control all the time on projects where I'm the only one working. Being able to create a branch for more "risky" changes, being able to quickly look at a tree of revisions and compare differences between each, tagging, and being able to look at check-in comments for each version are all so useful. You can of course do all these things with the "copy" method, but the version control tools just make each of these actions so much easier. Plus, in the event that you begin to have more people working on the project, then you're already set up to handle them.
Just out of curiousity, have you played around with using CVS or Subversion? You don't need a server or anything (you can just run it on a local machine, with the repository just being a directory). I know for me I used to use the "copy" method back in college and it seemed fine, but now that I've seen what version control could do I can't imagine how I got along without it
