use make and version control system for every project?

[Aahz]

In article <slrnbo1p1b.j0v.bignose-hates-spam at iris.polar.local>,
Ben Finney  <bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> wrote:
>On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 03:08:57 GMT, Carl Banks wrote:
>>
>> I recommended not bothering early on because I tend to move files
>> around quite a bit early on (a major pain in CVS), and I suspect I'm
>> not the only person to do that.
>
>That's a flaw of CVS, not of revision control.  Other revision control
>systems (Arch, Subversion, even RCS) don't suffer from this flaw; use
>any of those to have *no* excuse not to use revision control from the
>project's inception.

How well does Subversion work without a web server?  The docs seem to
imply that you need one, but I'd be using it only in local mode.  How
would you choose between Arch and Subversion?
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