[Zoom]

I'm a single developer working on a small set of scripts (perl, cgi) and I'd like to find some sort of extremely simple version control system with a GUI. I've looked at a bunch of stuff like SVN, CVS, and a host of others, but they're way too heavy-weight and cumbersome for what I need. I need to be able to check in/out about 20 files and visually diff them against older revisions - that's it. I don't need security/auth, I don't need remote access, I don't need branching, I don't need access by more than one user. Tagging would be nice, but not necessary.

And I want a simple Mac binary I can install and run.... no Fink stuff, or command line stuff, or Xcode, or whatever. I'm not saying I can't do these things, but it's just total overkill and way more work that I feel like expending. I'll stick with archiving the folder from time to time and using Time Machine if I can't find what I'm looking for.

Anyone know of such a thing?

[besson3c]

No, but if you change your mind Git is actually very easy to use. You can literally have yourself up and running in a minute once you have it installed:

Code:
git init
git add .
git commit

Honestly, I can't see how a GUI would make using Git substantially easier.

[besson3c]

For fun, I Googled Git GUI and came up with these two for OS X:

Home - gitnub - GitHub
GitX - See It

[mduell]

The Git for OS X package (dmg installer) includes git gui.

So you can do "git gui blame filename" and get a visual browser for git blame.

[nonhuman]

It's not free, but Cornerstone is actually an excellent SVN GUI. There's an SVN implementation packaged with it, so you don't have to install anything other than the app itself. Works very well for our designers and other less tech savvy people on our team (and hell, even for those of us who know our way around the command line it's pretty nice).

Personally, however, I prefer Mercurial. It's very simple and easy to use with a shallow learning curve, but still has near feature-parity with Git. If you really want a GUI you can use Murky. It's not as complete or polished as Cornerstone, but it works pretty well!

[papercup12]

Bazaar (aka bzr) is pretty well-know for being very easy to use. It's also fairly easy to install since it only needs Python (which I think comes stock with OS X).

As for a GUI front end, see the listing at http://bazaar-vcs.org/3rdPartyTools