If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command synta

If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command syntax). It's written in Python and so works beautifully on Windows, OSX and Linux... http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial is as good a place to start as any (or see http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/ http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/) for pointers to some tutorials...