By properly configuring total commander you can get overlay icons showed as in explorer. Just look for it (it took half an hor for myself). Sorry but not being more explicit but I am at home right now. We are using svn + tortoise + ankh Ankh is good for cheking if files has been modified from MSVS but ussually we commit from svn because it covers all the files and not only the files in MSVS.