I use SVN with Tortise SVN as a client for my Windows Machine,

I run a wee NAS (Network Attached Storage) and have set SVN up on this as a file based server, so no other server is required, it is really easy to setup and once you are up and running you just right click in windows file manager, and press commit, add your comments, and you are all done.

HOWEVER.
one of the downfalls that SVN has over CVS is that the files are stored in its own native binary file format, so when you browse to the SVN directory on your file server it is meaningless. This concerns me as if it gets corrupted you're stuffed.

CVS does not have this issue as it stores the edits in plain text, so if your CVS gets corrupted you can go through and strip out all the CVS stuff to get working source again.

Both SVN and CVS can store binary files, but they store the entire file, not the changes. (but who cares, you can still roll back you just end up storing lots of data that is essentially the same.)

Regards

Marshall