Lorenzo Barbieri @ Weblogs.Asp.Net

I found an interesting comparison of different Version Control Systems: http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html

But I noticed that Team Foundation Server is missing.

Here are the links to the original document, with my notes about Team Foundation Source Control:

Repository Operations

• Atomic Commits - supported by TFS 
• Files and Directories Moves or Renames - supported by TFS
• File and Directories Copies - supported by TFS
• Remote Repository Replication - don't know - can be done on the underlying Sql Server DB
• Propagating Changes to Parent Repositories - TFS natively support proxies for remote offices - can be done on the underlying Sql Server DB
• Repository Permissions - supported by TFS 
• Changesets' Support - supported by TFS 
• Tracking Line-wise File History - not sure it can be done directly - there is a visual diff util

Features

• Ability to Work only on One Directory of the Repository - supported by TFS
• Tracking Uncommited Changes  - supported by TFS
• Per-File Commit Messages  - only on the whole changeset, to have comments on individual files it's necessary to have multiple checkins

Technical Status

• Documentation - it's still in beta, there are a lot of useful information available, also online
• Ease of Deployment - medium - the source control part of TFS needs the whole product, that has many dependencies, like Sql Server, Sharepoint Services, etc...
• Command Set - very extensive but not compatible with CVS
• Networking Support - good (uses HTTP/HTTPS)
• Portability - server can be installed only on Windows 2003, client can be installed on Windows, and there is also a Java client (www.teamprise.com) that works on many other platforms

User Interfaces

• Web Interface - there is a third party tool (www.teamplain.com)
• Availability of Graphical User-Interfaces. - native client can be integrated in Visual Studio 2005, standalone client available, there is a client for VS 6.0 another is in development for VS.NET. The Java client (www.teamprise.com) can be used standalone and integrated with Eclipse.

License - proprietary, binary only license. Five user license included in MSDN Premium.

This list is preliminary, and it can be wrong. Please tell me if there is something to change.

After some days, I plan to submit it to the original site, to update their comparison.

Thanks to my friend Pierre Greborio for the hint about "Per-File Commit Messages".