Key Feature: directory awareness (Score 5, Informative)

The most serious flaw in CVS, IMO, and the most important feature to address in any new system, is CVS's total lack of understanding of directories. If you ever want to change the structure of your CVS controlled source tree, you either have to:

• fake out CVS by doing a remove/add pair on every file you want to move (which means you lose the revision history of each such file!), or
• manually move files around in the repository (which entirely defeats the purpose of using a revision control system in the first place!)

If anyone out there creates a successor to CVS, please fix this fatal flaw!