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I'm working by myself on a project. I'd like an easy to use, free, version control system that integrates with IntelliJ IDEA nicely. I'd prefer if the whole repository was isolated to a single file, or folder, so that I could back it up on a USB stick easily and transfer it to another computer.

Kyle
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Amongst the various IntelliJ IDEA VCS support, the one for git is fine and easy to use.

Plus, with git bundle, you can export your repo to one file, very easy to copy around (on a backup storage for instance).

See the SO question "Backup a Local Git Repository"

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VonC
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Take a look at Git. The whole repository is in the .git directory under your project root (by default) and I believe IntelliJ IDEA just integrated Git functionality recently.

Assuming you are going with the default (having the .git directory in the project root), then you can just copy your project to a USB stick and you have your project and repository to go.

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