I would suggest a different checklist to pick version control systems. Point one my list would be: "does the system preserve or damage your original?" CVS and

I would suggest a different checklist to pick version control systems. Point one my list would be: "does the system preserve or damage your original?" CVS and SVN both fail on this by writing dot files in each and every directory of what you are trying to manage (breaks some non-compiler applications)- so I would lean more to Git, Mercurial and BZR.