--- title: CVS Reviews meta_title: 'CVS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 13 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CVS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.5 review_count: 13 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Source Code Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/source-code-management --- # CVS Reviews **Vendor:** FreeCAD **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 3.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 13 ## About CVS CVS is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages. ## CVS Reviews ### 1. CVS: Version Control System **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about CVS?** CVS is a version control system. Its simple and less complex and has even a good UI to make it easier. Its good for a beginner and probably if you have lesser number of developers in the team. **What do you dislike about CVS?** Not possible to manage merges well. Doesnt have more advanced features **What problems is CVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple Version control ### 2. An obsolete version control system **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark K. | Software Engineer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 26, 2016 **What do you like best about CVS?** CVS was great when it first came out as it was one of the first software products to solve a very urgent need of versioning (no more copy-pasting files!) **What do you dislike about CVS?** It's obsolete and there is literally zero reason to use it ever again. More modern version control systems (e.g. git, hg, etc) provide a huge superset of the features that CVS offered and there are tools to migrate CVS repos. If, for some strange reason, you can't migrate a CVS repo you can probably still find a tool to use git locally (e.g. I know there's a git-svn tool that uses git locally and then commits to SVN. There's likely a git-cvs or hg-cvs tool out there somewhere). The huge wins of modern VCS' are distributed repos (you don't need a centralized server), and vastly superior branching & diffing. There are a million other improvements, but these are the largest 2 IMO. **Recommendations to others considering CVS:** Use git or hg or any other modern VCS **What problems is CVS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Version control ## CVS Discussions - [What is difference between SVN and CVS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-difference-between-svn-and-cvs) - [What is CVS technology?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cvs-technology) - [What operating system does CVS use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-operating-system-does-cvs-use) - [What is CVS software development?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cvs-software-development) - [View CVS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/cvs/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=1§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+09%3A03%3A07+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e8e22308-7776-4e33-8e50-85570d729e01&secure%5Btoken%5D=57cb16cb4fac24b60a0769c335983c683166c1510367d24d28e940b87b6230f6&format=llm_user) ## CVS Features **Activity Tracking** - Activity Tracking **API** - API **AI Copilot** - AI Copilot **Third-Party Integrations** - Third-Party Integrations **Workflow Management** - Workflow Management **Alerts/Notifications** - Alerts/Notifications **Mobile Access** - Mobile Access **Generative AI** - Generative AI **Change Management** - Change Management **Reporting/Analytics** - Reporting/Analytics **Access Controls/Permissions** - Access Controls/Permissions **Issue Management** - Issue Management **Version Control** - Version Control **Audit Trail** - Audit Trail **Authentication** - Authentication **Search/Filter** - Search/Filter **Project Management** - Project Management **Workflow Automation** - Workflow Automation **Content Library** - Content Library **Task Progress Tracking** - Task Progress Tracking **Custom Development** - Custom Development **Two-Factor Authentication** - Two-Factor Authentication **Issue Tracking** - Issue Tracking **Visual Analytics** - Visual Analytics **Assignment Management** - Assignment Management **Continuous Integration** - Continuous Integration **Rules-Based Workflow** - Rules-Based Workflow **Repository Management** - Repository Management **Performance Monitoring** - Performance Monitoring **Backup and Recovery** - Backup and Recovery **Application Management** - Application Management **Bug Tracking** - Bug Tracking **Testing/QA Management** - Testing/QA Management **Encryption** - Encryption **Wiki** - Wiki **Bug/Issue Capture** - Bug/Issue Capture **Vulnerability Scanning** - Vulnerability Scanning **Static Analysis** - Static Analysis **Security Testing** - Security Testing **Configuration Automation** - Configuration Automation **Code Repository Integration** - Code Repository Integration **Collaborative Development** - Collaborative Development **Multiple Programming Languages Supported** - Multiple Programming Languages Supported **Code Review** - Code Review ## Top CVS Alternatives - [Git](https://www.g2.com/products/git/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (525 reviews) - [Azure DevOps Server](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-devops-server/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (192 reviews) - [Subversion](https://www.g2.com/products/subversion/reviews) - 3.9/5.0 (63 reviews)