Visual source safe replacement

Can someone offer please a free software that will be able to replace VSS 2005开发者_Go百科 for me? I can't afford to pay for it.

Thanks.

There are lots - which one you should use depends on the specifics of how you work.

At the moment my personal favourite is Mercurial which is distributed - there is a very good introduction to how using distributed version control works here - Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial.

I personally find that distributed version control works really well for me, but if you are looking for something that behaves a little more like VSS then you might want to look into alternatives such as Subversion which is widely used and very mature.

ok there are a ton. I would suggest using the googly and doing a search for something like open source source control. Take a look here.

Although, there are plenty, I would recommend you to try SVN, it's a centralized SVN and comes very close to Visual Source Safe, I see that the recommended answer recommends Mercurial, but it looks like SVN will work out for anybody that want to move over. We did a massive migration a year back from VSS to SVN without any issues.