From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 (git popularity) Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:34:42 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7vmyqk563z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <87k5lnwvzd.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> <878x22j1km.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp> <20080203103804.GC323@artemis.madism.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Feb 03 16:35:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JLgsW-0000M3-QA for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:35:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752180AbYBCPfB convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:35:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751924AbYBCPfB (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:35:01 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37561 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751453AbYBCPfA (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 10:35:00 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JLgrs-0005AX-JG for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:34:52 +0000 Received: from abuw189.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.194.189]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:34:52 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abuw189.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:34:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abuw189.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Matthieu Moy wrote: > Pierre Habouzit writes: >> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0000, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >>>=20 >>> When I was idly googling around for traces of VCS and popularity, >>> noticed that Git is actually pretty popular. =A0Googling for 'gitwe= b' >>> and 'viewcvs' and other comparative web-frontend variants floating = in >>> the cyberspace I get these number of hits (in rough estimate) : >>>=20 >>> 10000000 CVS >>> 1000000 SVN >>> 100000 Git >>> 10000 Mercurial / Darcs >>> 1000 Bzr >>>=20 >>> This is crude, and I'm sure someone else will come up with a better >>> estimate. The point is, when there are so many users, people don't >>> read the lists or the changelog, but rely on manuals, and be surpri= sed >>> with this change. >> >> =A0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=3Dsvn%2C+git%2C+mercurial%2C+bzr%= 2C+darcs&ctab=3D0&geo=3Dall&date=3Dall&sort=3D0 >=20 > Debian's popularity contest gives an idea too And Ohloh stack count gives yet another idea. Both Debian popularity counter and number of Ohloh stacks are mentioned in GitSurvey2007[*1*], around question about used SCMs. Google Trends above not yet, and perhaps will not because it is even more skewed than mentioned results, perhaps even more than result of Git _User's_ Survey 2007. [*1*] http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSurvey2007#head-4ed59e7615e2dc4f4baa8= fa0beccde52c93789f8 --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git