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I am the only developer of a software project. I did not use any version control until now. I know I can put the last version of the project under version control. The question is whether it is possible to put older versions and branches of the project under version control. If it is possible, how ? which version control software should I use ? (I am using Visual Studio 2008)
Edit: I have almost all previous versions.
You could do it, assuming you have copies of the older revisions that you want to put into source control (you can’t magically make them appear, of course).
What I would do is take the oldest version, put it somewhere, and commit the folder to your source control (this would become Revision 1). Then, take the second-oldest version, overwrite the first version on your hard drive with that, then check in again (this becomes Revision 2 in source control). Repeat, overwriting with the next-newest revision each time until all of the versions you want are checked in.
There are good, free version control systems available. I use SVN (with the TortoiseSVN shell add-on), and I’m quite happy with it. CVS is alright too, but gets very slow as projects get large.