This is why I'm keen on "fossil scm", especially for small projects. It uses similar syntax to cvs and subversion, but you have a full local copy of the entire

This is why I'm keen on "fossil scm", especially for small projects. It uses similar syntax to cvs and subversion, but you have a full local copy of the entire repository. The local repository acts as a buffer between the centralized repository and the living on disk code. Also helps that fossil has very few dependencies and is a single self contained executable for everything. And it uses sqlite as its data store.