Comparison between SourceAnywhere

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SCM feature:	SourceAnywhere	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 +Superversion +Surround SCM +svk +Team Foundation Server +Vesta +Visual SourceSafe
Atomic Commits	Yes. Commits are atomic.
Files and Directories Moves or Renames	Yes. Both moves and renames are supported, while maintaining history.
Intelligent Merging after Moves or Renames	Unknown. FILL IN.
File and Directories Copies	Copying doesn't retain history, moving does.
Remote Repository Replication	Not directly possible with the included GUI or command line tools; Some SQL Server tool might be useable.
Propagating Changes to Parent Repositories	Not directly possible with the included GUI or command line tools; Some SQL Server tool might be useable.
Repository Permissions	Yes. SourceAnywhere Server Manager can define access to a repository per user or group and user access rights to a project.
Changesets' Support	Not exactly. SourceAnywhere uses a related concept of configurations instead, which some has similar properties.
Tracking Line-wise File History	Yes. (SAW annotate)
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.
Tracking Uncommited Changes	Yes. Using saw diff.
Per-File Commit Messages	No. There is no such feature.
Documentation	Good. There's an overview and tutorial on the web site, and integrated help for every command.
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.
Command Set	Very extensive but not compatible with CVS.
Networking Support	Good. (single TCP/IP socket)
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.
Web Interface	Currently not.
Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces.	The system is GUI-based by design.