Re: VCS popularity

[Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:14:52AM +0200, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
> On 1 April 2015 at 00:03, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
> > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
> > > openhub.net (formerly ohloh.net) has an interesting comparison of
> > > the number of public repositories on the net, based on searches of
> > > popular hosting services. This comparison is available at
> > > <https://www.openhub.net/repositories/compare> and shows an
> > > estimated market share between Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial and
> > > Subversion.
> > >
> > > I've been monitoring this since 2014-08-05 to see how things were
> > > developing, and it's a good indication of the popularity of the
> > > various version control systems.
> >
> > number of repositories is an interesting datapoint, but activity in
> > the repos would be far more interesting. There are a lot of repos of
> > various types out there that haven't been touched for years.
> 
> I do agree on that. Many repositories won't be deleted if they are
> converted to other VC systems to avoid breaking links and so on. What I
> found pretty interesting is the relative growth between the various
> systems. That's why I created the graphs that show creation of new
> repositories since August 2014 instead, for example
> 
> https://github.com/sunny256/openhub-repositories/blob/master/graph/relative-zoom.svg

Github is serving every git repo as a svn repo too (or at least did). In
a talk they claimed to be the worlds biggest subversion host (if I
recall correctly).

However most people hosting on github doesn't do it to use svn but git.
Anyway, this mean that for every github git repo there's one svn repo.
Is github big enough to make the plots above invalid?

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