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  Subversion Visual Source Safe PureCM
Project Visibility Folder and files view Folder and files view Projects view optimised for release planning and SCM
No support for release planning No support for release planning Full support for release planning (Professional only)
No support for task tracking No support for task tracking Integrated task workflow and tracking (Professional only)
Plugins needed to link changes to issues, no support when merging No support for task-based development Fully integrated, optimised for parallel development (Professional only)
No link between branches or labels No link between branches or labels Branch hierarchy with customisable change inheritance ("merge rules")
Different clients needed Windows only GUI Cross-platform GUI with task-specific views
Command line interface No command line interface Command line interface
No tracking of ongoing file changes No tracking of ongoing file changes Live checkout tracking
Changelists to separate tasks in a workspace Individual file-based checkins only Local changesets to separate tasks in a workspace
Parallel Development Changesets and atomic commits Individual file checkins and no atomic commits Changesets and atomic commits
Limited refactoring support No refactoring support Full refactoring support
Cheap branching, incomplete merge tracking Branches are physical file and folder copies, inefficient and slow Stream-based branching with full merge tracking
Merging via workspace only Merging of individual file changes only Merging via workspace or directly on the server
Some support to integrate feature branches No support for feature branches Full support for feature branches (Professional only)
No visual folder diff No visual folder diff Visual stream/folder diff
No support for shelving No support for shelving Shelving to checkpoint unfinished changes
Distributed Development Server connection via TCP/IP or HTTPD Windows folder share Server connection via TCP/IP
No revisioning capability without server connection No revisioning capability without server connection Full support for offline development
No Proxy Server available No Proxy Server available Proxy Server available to cache repository data (Professional only)
No built in support for data encryption No built in support for data encryption Encypted data transfer using SSL/TLS and VPNs possible
Security and Interfaces No Active directory support Active directory authentication Active directory authentication
User/password authentication User/password authentication User/password authentication
No support for access control lists (ACL) No support for access control lists Access control lists from repository to file level
Java API for 3rd party integration No APIs .NET and Java APIs for 3rd party integration
Platform Support Windows Windows Windows
Linux, Unix's   Linux, Solaris
Mac OS X   Mac OS X

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