Need: Version control - install with only ftp/mysql access

I would like to host my own vers开发者_StackOverflow社区ion control on the server I already pay for. I don't have shell access, but I can use ftp (obviously) and mysql. Are there any version control solutions that can run with only these?

I don't think Subversion or CVS will work without software installation. Can you mount your account as a file share/network drive? If so Mercurial would work. You could keep your master repo in the folder and clone it onto your local hard drive for real work. If you're just looking for a remote repository solution, you might be able to use Mercurial or Git with DropBox in the same way.

This is just my opinion, but if any provider ever told me they don't support SSH because of security I would immediately cancel my account and get a new provider. Let me guess: they only do Windows server hosting?

If you need to keep your project private you could always use a paid GitHub or BitBucket account as well, but that doesn't solve the problem of hosting on your existing account.

Straight out of git's man page:

Git natively supports ssh, git, http, https, ftp, ftps, and rsync protocols.

Rsync works over FTP, so you could have a local folder that represents what you want on the host, and then use rsync to deploy it.