Hi!

I'm looking for a version control system to replace SVN.

I've heard that Mercurial and Git are good distributed systems, but I was wondering if any of them can work without a central server?

The issue here is that I'm trying to get a few PCs working together, and my workplace has a VPN solution which really is horrible.
Thus, I was thinking that it might be possible to setup a parallel version control system where ~10 persons can connect without having a central server.

I could setup a server on my PC of course, but if I'm away that won't be good. So what I'm really looking for is some P2P approach.

Could Mercurial or Git work like that, or are there other systems?

Thanks!

Actually git is completely decentralized - you don't need a master server anywhere. It's useful if you'd like to say - "This is the one true repository from which all others must come, and return." However, it's really like a peer-to-peer development system.

I've never used mercurial, so I have no idea about it.

These are the ways that you can share Mercurial repositories between the PCs.

Might be you are interested in:
https://github.com/

And:
http://www.bitbucket.org/

Furthermore, these are the ways that you can share GIT repositories between the PCs, should you decide to go that route.

Thanks for your answers, I'll have a look at the links