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Re: Git User's Survey 2009 partial summary, part 2 - from first 10

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 10:44 UTC
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On Monday 17 August 2009, Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> 9) On which operating system(s) do you use Git?
>    (Choice - Multiple answers)
>
> On Unix-based operating system you can get the name of operation
> system by running 'uname'.

I find it interesting to compare the answers to this question against previous years' surveys:

============================================================= Operating system | 2009 [%] | 2008 [%] | 2007 [%] ------------------------------------------------------------- Linux | 88% | 86% | 90% MacOS X (Darwin) | 44% | 47% | 15% MS Windows/Cygwin | 9% | 10% | >3%? MS Windows/msysGit (MINGW) | 21% | 16% | >0%? ............................|..........|..........|.......... MS Windows (any) | 27% | <26%?| 9%

Although several of these numbers are probably inaccurate, and assuming that the responses on this question is representative, we see a stabilizing trend in Git's user base, at least when looking at Linux vs. MacOS. Windows seems to be growing steadily, and it's good to see that the msysGit portion is outgrowing the Cygwin portion.

Thanks to Dscho and all the others that make msysGit better every day!

Have fun! :)
...Johan
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