Comparison between SourceAnywhere and Superversion

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SCM feature:	SourceAnywhere	Superversion	Add to comparison: +CVS +AccuRev +Aegis +AllChange +Arch +Bazaar +BitKeeper +ClearCase +CM+ +CMSynergy +Co-Op +Darcs +Git +LibreSource Synchronizer +Mercurial +Monotone +OpenCM +Perforce +PureCM +Subversion +Surround SCM +svk +Team Foundation Server +Vesta +Visual SourceSafe
Atomic Commits	Yes. Commits are atomic.	Commits are atomic.
Files and Directories Moves or Renames	Yes. Both moves and renames are supported, while maintaining history.	No. Renames are not supported.
Intelligent Merging after Moves or Renames	Unknown. FILL IN.	No. Renames are not supported.
File and Directories Copies	Copying doesn't retain history, moving does.	No. Copies are not supported.
Remote Repository Replication	Not directly possible with the included GUI or command line tools; Some SQL Server tool might be useable.	Yes.
Propagating Changes to Parent Repositories	Not directly possible with the included GUI or command line tools; Some SQL Server tool might be useable.	No.
Repository Permissions	Yes. SourceAnywhere Server Manager can define access to a repository per user or group and user access rights to a project.	No.
Changesets' Support	Not exactly. SourceAnywhere uses a related concept of configurations instead, which some has similar properties.	Partial support. Changes are grouped into changesets, but cannot be cancelled invididually yet.
Tracking Line-wise File History	Yes. (SAW annotate)	No.
Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository	Yes. SourceAnywhere can define the user access right to each project and users can be restricted to work only on the projects they have check out/in right.	No.
Tracking Uncommited Changes	Yes. Using saw diff.	Yes. Local changes are detected and shown immediately. Changes can be collected in a local buffer before being committed to the repository.
Per-File Commit Messages	No. There is no such feature.	Yes.
Documentation	Good. There's an overview and tutorial on the web site, and integrated help for every command.	Fairly poor. There are two tutorials, but there is no reference. Installing and getting started with the GUI is very easy though.
Ease of Deployment	Excellent. Dynamsoft SourceAnywhere is extremely easy to install. It is totally written in C++ from scratch, which means that you don't need any additional components and frameworks to support the installation.	If Java 1.4 is installed, deployment of Superversion usually takes two clicks.
Command Set	Very extensive but not compatible with CVS.	There is little need to memorize a command set because all actions take place in a GUI. A part of the terminology used in the application is borrowed from CVS.
Networking Support	Good. (single TCP/IP socket)	Good. Network support based on RMI is integrated seamlessly. Encryption and HTTP tunnelling are planned for the near future.
Portability	Good. The server runs on Windows only. Clients can work on any platform that SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) supports, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, SCO Unix, FreeBSD and so on.	Excellent. Clients and servers work on any Java 1.4-compatible platform. There is official support for Windows, Linux and OS/2.
Web Interface	Currently not.	No.
Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.	The system is GUI-based by design.	A GUI is integrated.