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CVS vs. Subversion
written about 15 years ago
CVS is very stable. In case of an hardware failure it does not destroy the repository like Subversion does. The worst case is some stale lock files lying around, which are automatically deleted on reboot by most Linux distributions.
CVS does support unique IDs for commits spanning multiple directories.
Popular CVS clients like Eclipse do support change sets.
CVS has very handy short version numbers on a per file basis. "You need version one point twenty four of database.php" is so much nicer "than you need version sixmillionthreehundretninetyeightthousandfivehundretandfourtytwo.
CVS does supports adding commit logs and version identifiers to files.
CVS is commonly supported by IDEs without installing unofficial plugins.