Newbie: Mercurial for solo development (Windows)

[Rafael Villar Burke]

Ramon M. Felciano wrote:
> Hi --
>
> I'm looking for a VCS for handling my own development tasks, which tend 
> to be occasional scripting and coding hacks. I'm the only one who will 
> be working on the codebase, but will be working from multiple machines 
> (PC desktop, laptop, etc). I've been synching between machines using 
> Unison, and manually making copies of files for backups (utils-0.1.py, 
> utils-0.2.py, etc). This is starting to get messy and painful and I'm 
> looking migrate to a real VCS setup.
>
> Is Mercurial a good fit for solo development of this sort, or would this 
> be overkill?
It's a perfect fit and you'll love it.
I mostly use it that way, for small pet projects that are shared between
windows (desktop) and linux (desktop & server) machines.

Regards,

Rafael Villar Burke