Git is exploding

Git is exploding

[Øyvind A. Holm]

Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via
Thomas Bassetto on G+):

http://bit.ly/rNxVN0

Very cool indeed. Maybe it's the rise of GitHub, or simply that the
user interface is mature enough that also "regular" users feel
comfortable with it.

Regards,
Øyvind

Re: Git is exploding

[Miles Bader]

2011/10/29 Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>:
> That the sharpness of that graph is pretty amazing though; what
> happened in 2010Q1?

Actually, now I realize what happened:  that's the date the Debian
"git-core" package was renamed "git" (the "git" package used to be
"gnu interactive tools")!!

-Miles

-- 
Cat is power.  Cat is peace.

Re: Git is exploding

[Tay Ray Chuan]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> wrote:
> Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via
> Thomas Bassetto on G+):
>
> http://bit.ly/rNxVN0
>
> Very cool indeed. Maybe it's the rise of GitHub, or simply that the
> user interface is mature enough that also "regular" users feel
> comfortable with it.

How were the numbers gathered? I looked around the page but gave up.

-- 
Cheers,
Ray Chuan

Re: Git is exploding

[Ramkumar Ramachandra]

Hi Tay,

Tay Ray Chuan writes:
> How were the numbers gathered? I looked around the page but gave up.

See: http://popcon.debian.org/FAQ

-- Ram

Re: Git is exploding

[Matthieu Moy]

Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> writes:

> Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via
> Thomas Bassetto on G+):
>
> http://bit.ly/rNxVN0
>
> Very cool indeed.

The recent rise is essentially due to the git-core package renamed to
git, and people doing updates:

http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=git%2C+git-core&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

Still, Git is now more popular than SVN for Debian users accepting the
popcon data gathering.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: Git is exploding

[Matthieu Moy]

Øyvind A. Holm <sunny@sunbase.org> writes:

> Found an interesting "Popularity Contest" graph on debian.org (via
> Thomas Bassetto on G+):
>
> http://bit.ly/rNxVN0

Here are a few other interesting metrics:

http://www.ohloh.net/repositories/compare
=> around 1/4 of the repositories found are Git repositories. Subversion
has a bit more than half, and the last 1/4 is essentially CVS.

http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Git&project_1=Subversion&project_2=mercurial&submit_2=Go
=> Git has 2,659 users on ohloh, Subversion has 7,667 and Mercurial has
795.

From those numbers, centralized VCS are still dominant, but Git really
emerges among DVCS, and is not that far behind.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

Re: Git is exploding

[Junio C Hamano]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Git&project_1=Subversion&project_2=mercurial&submit_2=Go
> => Git has 2,659 users on ohloh, Subversion has 7,667 and Mercurial has
> 795.

Git costs $11M (6 years old) while Subversion costs $6.7M (11 years old)?

Re: Git is exploding

[Miles Bader]

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> The recent rise is essentially due to the git-core package renamed to
> git, and people doing updates:

The renaming would obviously explain the extreme initial steepness of
the rise, but it shouldn't have much effect on the absolute values or
the more recent numbers.

[Look at git-core+git, basically it makes the initial part of the
graph fill in a bit, getting rid of the weird kink and making it more
smoothly exponential but doesn't really change the conclusion.]

Probably the main distortion is just the fact that it counts Debian
users ... subversion has a lot of stodgy corporate users etc that are
unlikely to use Debian!  :]

--Miles

-- 
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