Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary, part 5 - other SCM

[david@lang.hm]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:51, david@lang.hm wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
> True, I have forgot that "I use this SCM" (or "I used this SCM") doesn't
> necessarily mean that one _choose_ this SCM.  One can use some SCM
> because it is SCM project uses, or because their company requires it;
> but not necessary, as git-svn and git-p4 show one can use Git, and
> make it interact with respectively Subversion and Perforce, and trying
> to make it look like one uses this other SCM.

I would expect people to still count those as using the other SCM. git-svn 
and git-p4 can do a lot, but they don't do everything, once in a while I 
would expect to need to use the native commands for the upstream SCM

>> I find it interesting that the number of people who use git and the other
>> DVCS systems in so small. Is this becouse the 'market share' of those
>> other systems is small? Or becouse people who learn git aren't willing to
>> put up with other systems (or vice-versa)? Or is there some other trend
>> or tendancy that makes people who select one DVCS more likely to work on
>> similar projects, so people interested in those types of projects will
>> generally just see a single DVCS system
>
> I don't think 59% (in the example case of using currently Subversion)
> is small.  Take into account for example that there are people who (as
> seen from responses to other questions in this survey) use SCM (Git)
> only to track their private work, never publishing.  Then there are
> people who do not track (perhaps with exception of web interfaces)
> other projects development using version control systems, even if they
> do follow their development.

Subversion is not a Distributed SCM. I am pointing out the much smaller 
overlap between distributed SCM systems.

David Lang