* Built-in SCM best practices AccuRev integrates proven Software Configuration Management (SCM) best practices, so you can easily map to your optimal process model. Built-in advanced parallel development capabilities scale with your team’s changing business requirements, so you can realize the most suitable development process. * Change-based traceability AccuRev enables you and your team to truly work at the change level. It ties code changes to defects, requirements, or user stories, to enable you to share only completed issues. Your whole team instantly sees all code associated with those issues, providing true change-based traceability. * Stream-based architecture Streams support the basic branching capabilities for isolation and parallel development without the cost of labor-intensive operations, like creating and managing branches. A stream in AccuRev is a first-class object, which means operations are faster and more reliable than in traditional SCM tools. * Workflow and process modeling Easily model your development process by level of code maturity, from the developer’s private workspace, all the way to the production stream.

* Git allows and encourages you to have multiple local branches that can be entirely independent of each other. The creation, merging, and deletion of those lines of development takes seconds. * Git is fast. With Git, nearly all operations are performed locally, giving it a huge speed advantage on centralized systems that constantly have to communicate with a server somewhere. * One of the nicest features of any Distributed SCM, Git included, is that it's distributed. This means that instead of doing a "checkout" of the current tip of the source code, you do a "clone" of the entire repository. * The data model that Git uses ensures the cryptographic integrity of every bit of your project. Every file and commit is checksummed and retrieved by its checksum when checked back out. It's impossible to get anything out of Git other than the exact bits you put in. * Git has something called the "staging area" or "index". This is an intermediate area where commits can be formatted and reviewed before completing the commit. * Git is released under the GNU General Public License version 2.0, which is an open source license. The Git project chose to use GPLv2 to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software---to make sure the software is free for all its users.