I found Kieran's paper describing his Emacs program and version control guidelines last week and fell in love! http://kieranhealy.org/resources/emacs-starter-kit.html Then had my heart broken when I found out it was only for Mac. I have just enough techie know how to get me into trouble and waste hours setting up something that might not end up working quite right. I was encouraged by Kieran's development because it has social scientists in mind, and lays out set up steps and uses pretty clearly (for a social scientist anyway).

Has anyone put something similar together for PC? Or have any favourite version control systems they can describe? Right now my version control is all based on file names and project/analysis logs.