Subversion is ridiculously easy to install and start running. After installing Subversion on the computer that holds your repository, add TortoiseSVN to give you source control from Windows Explorer ...

I use mercurial with my projects, but I never use any visual studio integrations for any source control systems I use. All command line, all the time! Not open for further replies.

Microsoft is backing Git rather than attempting to recreate the distributed version-control wheel. Here's the roadmap detailing how Git support is coming to Visual Studio and TFS.

News Subversion SCM Tool Gets Update CollabNet releases Subversion 1.5, an updated version of its open source software-configuration management tool. By Michael Desmond 07/15/2008 Development tools ...

Also the Visual Studio tooling support for Git is almost blank. The compiled version of the add-in is available in the Visual Studio Gallery.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.