From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 09:32:45 GMT
Subject: Re: looking for "market share" analysis of SCMs.
Message-ID: <20080520093245.GA5037@mithlond.arda.local>
In-Reply-To: <48329282.1040407@tikalk.com>

Ittay Dror wrote (2008-05-20 11:57 +0300):

> I'm looking for a survey that analyses the market share of the major
> SCMs (including git of course). If someone knows about something like
> that, can you please point me to it? (optimally, such a survey will
> take  into account how large the projects are)

Some kind of "market share analysis" is Debian popularity contest which
gathers automatically information about what packages are installed on
people's Debian systems. Perhaps you can get some useful information
from it. I constructed a link which compares the number-of-installs of
some major SCM/VCS systems:

http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=darcs%2Cgit-core%2Cmercurial%2Cbzr%2Csubversion%2C+cvs&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2003-10-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1