Well for personal projects, I have no need for branches really. My commit history (if I were using git) would be entirely linear. So I really just need backup c

Well for personal projects, I have no need for branches really. My commit history (if I were using git) would be entirely linear. So I really just need backup copies of my code at various points in the past, in case I need to revert a file or diff to find a bug. FTP is fine for my purposes, I just tar my code and copy it up to the server.