I use Fossil for all of my long term projects. It can even import Git repositories if you want to try it out.

Today I was working on a semester paper for a non-technical class. It is versioned in fossil and I have all my miscellaneous ideas, initial outline, and the paper guidelines in the Wiki. The branching also makes much more sense, and I’ve used it for major revisions of the paper or its structure.

Fossil is legitimately awesome, and I lament the fact that Git gained popularity over it.