Version Control Systems

Rank

Mercurial vs CVS

  1. This system is good for working offline.

    98% 2%
    Mercurial 91 out of 92 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  2. This system is good at merging.

    97% 3%
    Mercurial 89 out of 91 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  3. This system is good for dispersed teams.

    96% 4%
    Mercurial 82 out of 85 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  4. This system is pluggable.

    94% 6%
    Mercurial 68 out of 72 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  5. This system is good for small teams.

    94% 6%
    Mercurial 84 out of 89 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  6. This system is good at branching.

    94% 6%
    Mercurial 79 out of 84 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  7. This system is good for large teams.

    93% 7%
    Mercurial 77 out of 82 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  8. This system has good tools for importing from other VCSs.

    92% 8%
    Mercurial 71 out of 77 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  9. This system is robust against data loss.

    91% 9%
    Mercurial 67 out of 73 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  10. This system is easy to use.

    90% 10%
    Mercurial 85 out of 94 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  11. There is a good community around this system.

    89% 11%
    Mercurial 79 out of 88 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  12. There are good hosting services for this system.

    88% 12%
    Mercurial 76 out of 86 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  13. This system is easy to administrate.

    87% 13%
    Mercurial 78 out of 89 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  14. This system is easy to learn.

    83% 17%
    Mercurial 71 out of 85 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  15. This system is good for binary files.

    80% 20%
    Mercurial 57 out of 71 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  16. This system has good GUI tools.

    78% 22%
    Mercurial 59 out of 75 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  17. This system has good integration with other tools.

    72% 28%
    Mercurial 62 out of 86 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  18. Many project hosting services support this system.

    67% 33%
    Mercurial 53 out of 79 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  19. I am familiar with this system.

    65% 35%
    Mercurial 93 out of 143 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  20. This system has a model which is easy to understand.

    61% 39%
    Mercurial 58 out of 94 picked Mercurial over CVS CVS

  21. This system is likely to be a passing fad.

    43% 57%
    Mercurial 44 out of 78 picked CVS over Mercurial CVS

What's going on here?

The absolute rankings are interesting for large scale comparisons but when you want to know about two specific languages it's much more informative to look at how the two fare when they go directly head to head.

Here are all the statements which we've got enough comparisons between Mercurial and CVS to be meaningful and which of the two our users picked.

The order in which we're presenting them is a little arbitrary (sorry), but we've tried to put the things which they're both good at first so as to give you the most interesting picture of it.