Comparison between AccuRev and PureCM

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SCM feature:	AccuRev	PureCM	Add to comparison: +CVS +Aegis +AllChange +Arch +Bazaar +BitKeeper +ClearCase +CM+ +CMSynergy +Co-Op +Darcs +Git +LibreSource Synchronizer +Mercurial +Monotone +OpenCM +Perforce +SourceAnywhere +Subversion +Superversion +Surround SCM +svk +Team Foundation Server +Vesta +Visual SourceSafe
Atomic Commits	Yes. Commits are atomic	Yes. Commits are atomic.
Files and Directories Moves or Renames	Yes. Renames of both files and directories are supported. Supports controlling of symbolic links as well.	Yes. File and folder renames and moves are directly supported.
Intelligent Merging after Moves or Renames	Unknown. FILL IN.	Yes, intelligent renames are supported.
File and Directories Copies	Copying is supported through symbolic links (but all linked files are treated as the same file version). Moves are fully supported with the history retained.	Yes. Copies are supported.
Remote Repository Replication	Yes.	Yes. Using the PureCM Proxy Server.
Propagating Changes to Parent Repositories	With AccuReplica, the replica server has all the meta-data and fetches file data as needed by replica users; all write operations pass automatically from the replica to the master server.	No.
Repository Permissions	Yes. Access can be defined per stream (branch) using access control lists.	Yes. Permissions can be set against repositories, streams (branches/labels), folders and files using Access Control Lists.
Changesets' Support	Yes, AccuRev provides robust functionality for change sets (called change packages in AccuRev) including viewing differences by change packages and merging changes from stream to stream by change package.	Yes. Changesets are supported.
Tracking Line-wise File History	Yes. Available from both the gui and cli.	Yes, annotation is available through the GUI.
Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository	Yes. AccuRev provides functionality to define feature streams in which only the subset of code is seen. A group of developers can then be retricted to work only from that stream so they are only allowed to check in changes to that subset of code.	Yes.
Tracking Uncommited Changes	Yes. The functionality is available through both the GUI and the command line interface.	Yes.
Per-File Commit Messages	No. Commit messages are per change.	No. Commit messages are per change.
Documentation	Excellent. There is a full set of documentation available in pdf format available at AccuRev Documentation as well as context-sensitive help in the GUI.	Very Good (html and command line help)
Ease of Deployment	Excellent. All that is required is to download the binaries for the appropriate platform and run the installer. The installation package is self-contained. No additional software is needed. AccuRev supports most UNIX, Linux, and Windows platforms and deploying AccuRev to a multi-platform environment is straight-forward.	Very good. PureCM is very easy to deploy.
Command Set	Very extensive but not compatible with cvs.	A CVS-like command set which is easy to get used to for CVS-users.
Networking Support	Good. (proprietary protocol using TCP/IP)	Good. (single TCP/IP socket)
Portability	Excellent. The server runs on most UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms. The client runs on all of these platforms and on Mac OS X.	Excellent. Client and Server run on Windows, Linux, Solaris and other UNIXes. The client also runs on Mac OS X.
Web Interface	No.	Yes.
Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.	A single, comprehensive, java-based GUI is provided. The GUI has the same look-and-feel on all platforms.	Cross-platform GUI for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other UNIXes.